Methods

How do they do it?
 

There are many ways to end a life.

It could be a gunshot,

 

Or maybe a rope around your neck.

 

Possibly some pills,
 

Or even a jump.

There are many ways that people take their own lives. It could be shooting themselves in the head or cutting themselves with a knife and letting the blood flow. They could jump in front of moving traffic and hope to get hit or jump off of a bridge into rushing water. Other options include tying a rope around their neck and dangling above the floor or swimming out as far as possible into deep water and then giving up (Suicide Lector). People choose all these different methods for many different reasons, the main one being their location. If they are in a big city without large bodies of water around they obviously are not going to choose drowning.

The rate of completing a suicide is quite small compared to that of how many get attempted. Men who commit suicide are more likely to actually die from it because they tend to choose more violent methods such as gunshots (Vorvick).

Women, more often, choose methods of suicide more like suffocation or overdosing because they are less painful and less violent, still some may choose different methods (Vorvick).