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    >get strong and sharp metal wire
    >get glue
    >make noose from wire
    >put head trough noose
    >glue hands to hair
    >kick chair away

    Your friends and family will find you with your head being held in your hands as if you ripped it off yourself.

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    Survives but it hurts and it’s painful as hell, I want to finish it but the gun flew away.

    Just like 15 meters though where it got caught in a tree and the wind made it go off again, shooting me in the balls.

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    Js people go missing hiking all the time its much simpler to just hike out into the wilderness and do it there. They’re not gonna find you.

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      Your asking a lot of a depressed person. I don’t think I could ever be in the mood to kill myself after hiking out a couple of miles, but I love nature. Maybe it would work for someone else.

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        You don’t do it on the trail dude. Do you know how many people go missing and are never found in national parks every year? Look up Missing 411. If you think somoene is just gonna stumble across you then you have no concept of how vast these lands are. We’re talking about pure wilderness that is hundreds of miles across.

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          That legitimately doesn’t exist where I live :( My best attempt to not get found would probably be either breaking into one of the old unused mines in the mountains that are kind of near me or off myself at sea and hope that my corpse wouldn’t get swept to the coast.

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    Gun sticks on thumb, potentially leaving a festive corpse.

    Or, more fun, balloons hit basement ceiling, mystery solved.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@piefed.ca
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    Anon: “Haha I bet they cant solve this case!”

    Detective after investigating for 5 minutes: “Alright pack it up, boys. Natural Causes. He had a pre-existing condition of lead poisoning. Anyways, anyone wanna go get a donut with me?”

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      Either that or they just peg it on the relative or random black person, fabricate evidence and testimony, and then send an innocent to jail.

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    Do not do this. Helium is a scarce resource and those balloons create pollution and kill animals when they come down.

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      IIRC, we get a ton of helium from methane extraction now, which we’re increasingly relying on. We have more helium than we know what to do with at the moment I’m pretty sure. Now, once we stop using methane for power, then sure, it’s limited. Currently it’s a byproduct that there isn’t enough use for compared to what’s produced.

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        or even better, fill the balloon with vacuum so that it has the least weight possible, meaning it’ll float anywhere!

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      Helium is no longer all that scarce but balloons definitely create pollution and kill animals

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          We’ve just been relying on helium deposits that are running dry and have to use other methods of extracting it that are less economical

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            The problem with helium is that once we’re out, we’re out. It’s the second-most abundant atom, yes, but it doesn’t react with anything, can’t freeze, and escapes the planet when exposed to open air.

            The only source we have of it is radioactive decay, and it’s not something we can manufacture in any volume. I think the only way to make it would be in a supercollider one atom at a time.

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              Radioactive decay is the source, yes, which means we won’t be out of it until the earth is out of all of the radioactive isotopes that are undergoing alpha decay.

              By the time that happens, Bussard collectors will probably escape from the realm of fiction.

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                Yes, but right now it’s “cheap” because it’s a byproduct of natural gas mining. As we transition off fossil fuels it won’t be so easy to acquire.

                One of the reasons the shortage was alleviated was the expansion of gas mining and the subsequent discovery of a bunch in Tanzenia.

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    The gun is going to come down somewhere. Gravity is a bitch like that. So, coastline, and make sure the winds are out to sea. Not just the surface winds, but also the winds aloft. When the gun does eventually come down, it is still going to be connected to the balloons, and will be floating at the surface for days. A balloon mass this large could attract attention. You’ll want some kind of water soluble string to drop the gun and ensure it sinks.

    As it ascends, the balloon cluster is going to show up on doorbell cameras. The noise of the gunshot is going to draw witnesses with phone cameras. At the very least, you need a moonless night. Fog bank and low ceilings can help. Definitely don’t want to try this during the day.

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      I wonder if there is a level of elaboration in suicide planning where you stop being suicidal, because now you have a lot of interests and leafs of motivation are now so far from the original trunk, that you now have will to live.

      Now you like walks near the shore, checking weather patterns and how they form so you could notice them with your naked eye. Now you picked up balooning hobby, maybe you got in contact with other people on a forum, maybe you read a book. Now you got interested in materials science and chemistry, you organized a little lab somewhere and got sucked up by this fascinating subject. Later on you could start thinking about marine life and if it would be affected by your actions. That would be another rabbit hole. Maybe someone asked on the ballooning forum about glues and it was something you have recently read from a chemistry book and you recommend against said glue, because it could be harmful for marine life.

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        Well, not quite the same, but there’s the story of the guy who decided to spend a whole bunch of money on drugs and hookers and then kill himself, went to Mexico iirc, and had such a great time that he gained the will to live.

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      Some guy at a lake bear me once killed himself. He had a cgest wound but they found no gun. Suicide wasn’t really on the table because it’s weird to shoot youself in tge chest, and then where is the gun? Did he throw it in the lake with hia last breath? Non of it made sense, the bullet hole was weird, they found gunpowder residu that wasn’t common from gunfire. At his home they found a sort of contraption that no one cared about, because it seemed unrelated. But then they found a similar one next to the body and it was a string and some branch and a little rock or whatever he used. He was swinging that rock around to hit the bullet at the right location to fire it. They suspected it took him hours. Later they found out that people saw him for weeks, sitting there playimg with some rock branch toy or whatever.

      What an absolute insane way to die.

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      Thinking about it, you could really fuck with local authorities.

      Drench yourself in the water at the shore, wear clothes with tags torn out, and have a notebook in your pocket with pages after pages of random numbers. Police and intelligence agency staff will work all-nighters to figure out who was the spy they found and who shot them.

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    >buy Helium

    >around 10,000 balloon

    >gun

    >attach balloons filled with helium to self

    >shoot yourself

    >let the corpse fly away

    >no one will ever know

    Thank me later

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    Unless you pay cash for the balloons and somehow get helium from somewhere without a bottle deposit there will be a paper trail for the setup.

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    I think they can tell it was self inflicted gunshot but yeah, the missing gun will be a mystery.

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          From my understanding, that is something that is done, but it isn’t as reliable as media makes it seem. It’s a tool, but it’s very flawed. It can be used with other evidence to identify a weapon, but alone it’s mostly useless.

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            Setup a mechanism to double tap you from 10 feet away and the thing floats off and then have that detonate after floating off for awhile.

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      What if you don’t hold it normally? Use a type of ammo from a weapon normally too long for suicide and connect something to the trigger so you can reach it, or wrap the balloons string around it.

      If you watch enough true crime you can probably work out how to make your suicide look like a murder, or at the very least leave them confused for a while.

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      Ghouls. Missing items at crime or accident scenes happens. People come across the scene and help themselves.