Posted: Aug 24, 2012 2:24 pm
mindhack wrote:When his wife found him dead on his bed this bottle along with a note laid next to him. The note gave instructions for returning the bottle to the shop and for retrieving the deposit he'd had to pay for it. He had made arrangements and wrote instructions about many things. Like a business transaction, sort of. I was stunned at how rational this person must have been when he was planning for it all. Nobody would have been able to stop him.
This isn't quite the same, but many years ago I spent a summer working in the Allegheny County Morgue doing autopsies (I was an anatomy student at the time). Anyway, one of the most surprising things I discovered was how many suicides there were: on average 2 a day (out of 5-10 corpses/day). This was in Pittsburgh, an average-sized city.
The most notable one was a person (can't remember whether it was a man or a woman) who had slit their wrists, swallowed some corrosive poison and then hung themselves. Clearly was taking no chances. However they had the humanity to leave a note warning whoever found them/the coronoer to beware the corrosive poison they had swallowed.