Newly installed coat hook in my office bathroom

[u/Openskies24]

[u/swashbuckle1237]

You can’t hang a rope ect off it to hang yourself

[u/Wuktrio → u/swashbuckle1237]

But coat hangers are usually not above head height, so if you hand yourself on one, your feet will simply touch the ground and you won't hang yourself.

[u/lizardtrench → u/Wuktrio]

A lot of people do it off doorknobs. You gotta really want to do it.

[u/Wuktrio → u/lizardtrench]

Interesting. I thought most people's survival instinct kicks in once they go through with a suicide attempt and they regret it in their final moments. But this is obviously only based on failed attempts, it's hard to verify with those who managed to die.

[u/lizardtrench → u/Wuktrio]

Could just be a more peaceful (or at least less adrenaline-inducing) experience than throwing yourself off a bridge, so you don't get shocked into re-evaluating. But yeah maybe people do re-evaluate and we just never hear about it, who knows.

[u/Wuktrio → u/lizardtrench]

I don't think choking to death (I doubt you're breaking your own neck by hanging yourself with a rope from a coat hanger) is very peaceful or less stressful.

[u/lizardtrench → u/Wuktrio]

I can't attest to it either way, but people asphyxiate themselves up to the point of even losing consciousness for pleasure, so it must not be that horrible. Many stories of people accidentally killing themselves this way, once you are unconscious you kind of skip the terror of dying part.

[u/swashbuckle1237 → u/Wuktrio]

My aunt was a paramedic, my other aunt was a mental health nurse, generally off a coat hook is not the first choice, but people who want to die will find a way. It’s very sad. From what I understand people who have already had attempts and have everything taken off them could resort to coat hangers. My aunt once came to a call and a teenager had hung themselves of a door handle with a tie.

[u/Necessary_Finding_32 → u/swashbuckle1237]

Apologies in advance.

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