The most famous suicide method that is said to be certain is "hanging suicide". Every year, there are about 30,000 Japanese suicides, but more than half of them, about 15,000, choose to hang themselves and commit suicide.
What is a reliable suicide method "hanging suicide"?
Easy to use with one rope
You can use any tools such as ropes, strings, and strings. However, it is as soft as possible and fits snugly around the neck, and can be wrapped around the neck, such as electric cords, wrapping straps, USB charging cables, belts, sheets, and towels . You don't have to stick to the style because it doesn't have to be the rope that appears in the drama. Even vinyl strings for packaging in department stores are strong enough to support a weight of up to 100 kg.
Even vinyl strings sold at home improvement stores are strong enough. If this is something that has a cutting force such as a wire, it may cut off the neck.
Can be done while sitting
Usually, when you think of suicide by hanging, you can imagine a rope tied to a tall tree branch and hanging from the neck, but you can hang a rope or string anywhere except on a fragile tree branch. There is also an example of a boy in the first grade of junior high school hitting a 5 inch nail on a bookshelf and hanging himself. And you don't have to hang from a height higher than you, and you can do it while sitting. As shown in the figure, hanging suicide is completed even if the legs and hips are on the floor.
The reason is that it is easy to think that the cause of death of hanging is suffocation due to neck tightening, but in reality it is not. The theory of suicide by hanging is that the carotid and vertebral arteries that supply blood to the brain are tightened, blood flow to the brain is blocked, and the brain becomes oxygen-deficient, leading to death . It is said that the airway cannot be closed, so it does not cause dyspnea, but rather it loses consciousness in a moment, so there is no time for dyspnea . There are two types of arteries that supply blood to the brain: the "carotid artery" and the "vertebral artery" that climbs up the side of the spine while being protected by bones . For example, when the neck is tightened, the carotid artery is blocked. Since the vertebral artery protected by the bone is not blocked and the blood flow to the brain cannot be stopped, the cause of death is suffocation, but when hanging the neck, the neck is pulled up from diagonally above and the neck is angled. , Both the carotid and vertebral arteries are blocked at the same time, and the blood supply to the brain is instantly cut off, resulting in loss of consciousness .
The difference can be clearly seen by looking at the corpse, and most of the strangled corpses continue to have blood flow to the brain through the vertebral arteries, but on the contrary, the carotid artery that pumps blood from the brain is blocked, so the face turns purple. I am congested, but when I hang my neck, I rarely see such a state of congestion.
Hide, who was also a popular solo artist of X Japan's guitarist, also died in an accident, but he was no longer in a state where he hung his towel on the doorknob, so he could easily die without the intention of committing suicide. Evidence that it can happen.
Height to hang the neck
When hanging the neck, if the blood pressure is 170 mmHg, the carotid artery will be blocked by 3.5 kg and the vertebral artery will be blocked by 16.6 kg. If your legs are bent on the floor, about 70-80% of the total weight will be applied to your neck. Even when the knee is on the floor, about 20% of the total weight is applied to the neck, so for example, a person weighing 60 kg will apply about 12 kg of force, so the carotid artery will be completely blocked and the vertebral artery will be completely blocked. There is a small amount of blood flow in the brain, but over time the brain becomes oxygen deficient and eventually faints. In other words, even if the force applied to the neck is about 20% of the body weight, as long as the neck is properly angled, it is possible to die even if the body is not completely hung, so the feet are on the floor. Suicide by hanging can be completed whether you are sitting or sitting. There are cases where the buttocks and back are on the floor, and there is a theory that a height of 30 cm is sufficient. There is also a theory that in Europe and the United States, there are more people with their feet on the floor. Even in your own house that is not high enough, you can use the doorknob, you can use the slope of the stairs, or you can hook the rope somewhere with a height of 30 cm or more and sufficient strength. If you have one, you are in an environment where you can commit suicide, so you cannot say that you do not have to worry about suicide because you are in your room.
Lose consciousness in an instant
The reason why the attempted rate of suicide by hanging is extremely low is that it leads to death in a short time . If no one finds it for about 10 minutes, it will be completed as a suicide. Research by forensic scientists has shown that as soon as you hang your neck, you lose consciousness, your hands and feet do not move when you try to move, and there is no pain in the process, which is already common sense in the medical community. It has become. In Tokyo, when a director performed a hanging performance in front of a spectator, he lost consciousness as soon as he sat down and died in front of the spectator. A forensic scientist was prepared to return to the platform at any time in an attempt to experience the pain of hanging, fainting as soon as he took his foot off the platform, and was helped by a colleague who was barely present. There are many examples. Attempted who was helped by hanging by an electrical cord, "head consciousness. Breath feeling painful Toka hurts no longer can had never gone out you do not know anything as Powan" says the I will. In addition, there are cases in which the neck joint is dislocated by hanging with momentum by hanging from the neck in a high place, and in that case, cardiac arrest and respiratory arrest are said to occur in that moment.
Is the hanging corpse dirty?
A common drawback of hanging suicide, which is said to be deadly, is that the corpse does not look good. Certainly, you may incontinence or ejaculate. It is said that because the throat is tightened, the lower part pops out and drools, the face becomes congested and turns purple, and the eyeballs pop out, but such a terrible case is rare. The eyeballs do not pop out until many days after death, and the tongue does not stick out if it gets caught in the teeth, so it is said that "this situation may occur". If you look at the hanging corpse in the photo, it is almost the same as alive, with most of it in a dull-n-brown state. As mentioned above, the blood supply to the brain has already been cut off, so in most cases the face is not congested, and although it does not look good, it is a suicide by jumping from a building or a suicide by jumping into a train. It can be said that it is a much cleaner corpse than a corpse that has fallen apart and messed up.
Risk of failure to hang himself
In 1985, singer Frank Nagai attempted suicide by hanging himself. When he was discovered by his wife and the ambulance arrived, he was unconscious and had no breathing or pulse, and when he was taken to the hospital, his pupils opened and he was in a coma. However, he miraculously survived and recovered consciousness four to five days later, became able to speak a little after one month, and although he gradually recovered after that, he was able to identify the person and wife who went to visit him. It is said that he was in a state close to dementia. In other words, it seems that the brain was in a state of oxygen deficiency and suffered great damage. If you make a mistake, you will continue to have a hard time living, and as a suicide attempter, you will be seen as a discriminatory eye by the people around you, and you will also be watched as if you want to commit suicide again. On the contrary, if the aftereffects of brain damage remain, the very painful reality of suicide is difficult and it is difficult to live.
Suicide attempt by hanging succeeds in hanging suicide within a year
Also, I think that there are many cases where you get scared and hesitate to end up with an attempted suicide by hanging, but there is a study that people with a history of attempted suicide by hanging will succeed in performing suicide by hanging again within a year . .. A study by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found it. The research group conducted a nationwide long-term cohort study of Sweden on the relationship between various suicide attempts and unsuccessful suicide methods and the risk of subsequent suicides. The subjects of the survey were 48,649 inpatients who had attempted suicide in the past among inpatients in various hospitals and other facilities from 1973 to 1982, and investigated the suicide situation up to 2003. So, during the survey period, about 12% of 5,740 people committed suicide. When investigating the suicide, it was found that the risk of suicide varied greatly depending on the method of suicide that had been attempted before.
Many people who committed suicide such as hanging, strangulation, and choking had previously attempted suicide in the same way, 54% (258) of men and 57% of women who attempted suicide such as hanging, strangulation, and choking. (125) later succeeded in suicide, and 87% (333) achieved their goals within a year of the attempt.
Other suicide attempts (gas suicide, jumping, pistols, suicide by drowning) were less likely to perform subsequent suicides than suicides such as hanging, strangulation, and suffocation, but caution is still required. Most successful suicides have succeeded in suicide in the same way as the attempted suicide, for example, more than 90% of suicide attempters who have failed to hang themselves commit suicide by hanging themselves again. success. In other words, if there is a suicide attempter who has failed to hang himself, if he does not take proper care of that person, he will try to hang himself again within a year and make sure that he does not fail this time. I am afraid that I will do it. With regard to other suicide methods, it can be said that there is a high possibility of repeated suicide unless proper mental care is given after attempted suicide.
Case of successful suicide by hanging even with legs attached
On New Year's Day 1973, Tsuneo Mori, a United Red Army executive who was interacting with the Tokyo Detention House, was found hanging in his cell. He was formed in January 1972 and was a man who reigned almost as a dictatorship as the highest executive of the United Red Army of the Armed Revolutionary Group. Mori advocated the "gun principle" that a revolution can only be achieved by guns, and held a hideout in the mountains of Gunma prefecture and conducted armed training with guns, but was arrested in February 1972. He confessed that he had killed 12 Red Army soldiers for reasons such as "behavior is not revolutionary," and was transferred to the Tokyo Detention House in September of the same year, ahead of trial. The 12 Lynch murders had a greater impact on the world as madness in a closed group than the Asama-Sansou incident, in which the escaped Red Army soldiers stayed at Asama-Sansou. Then, on January 1st of the following year, he ate breakfast and lunch as usual, and it was recorded that at 13:38 pm on the same day, a patrol guard saw a forest sitting on tatami mats and reading. However, 14 minutes later, at 13:52, when the guard checked the cell again, Mori hung a towel about 60 cm in length in a ring on an iron grill with a height of 91 cm. I hurriedly called a doctor and tried treatments such as artificial respiration with cardiac stimulants, but died about an hour later. It seems that Mori threw his legs tied up with a shirt and hung in a dogleg shape. It is said that when he was dead, he was sitting down, and when he committed suicide, he kicked his tied legs toward the air, and in reaction to that, he applied gravity to the towel around his neck and tightened his neck. It has been analyzed as a thing. I wasn't conscious at the time of discovery, but the veins were still alive, and there was no incontinence or bleeding. The forest weighed 54 kg and was 163 cm tall, so it is presumed that the butt was not on the floor even though it was a 91 cm high iron grill. In other words, even if a man weighing 54 kg hangs his neck with his feet on the floor and his back on the wall, resuscitation will be impossible within 14 minutes.
Summary
The above is a summary of suicide by hanging. ・ The tools used are ropes, electric cords, straps for packaging, USB charging cables, belts, sheets, towels, etc. that fit the neck as softly as possible.・ The ground does not need to be taller than the height. It can be carried out even when hanging or sitting. ・ It loses consciousness in an instant and dies in a short time. ・ It is said that the corpse is dirty , but it is extremely rare that the corpse becomes dirty. ・ When it fails people sequelae with also-hanging suicide attempt history to become the remaining wheelchair life, finding that re-execute the hanging suicide within one year to succeed if enough to the death how to regret Once you missed death, can be executed suicide If you have enough energy, you can use it to live happily first and then look at it. In fact, I had been mentally driven to the point of planning suicide, but in a sense I was saved by talking to my psychiatrist who went to the hospital. At that time, because I knew "a sure way to commit suicide", I was able to think dryly, "I should do as much as I can, then say as much as I want to say, and then die." I'm still living with the feeling that I'll die anytime. [Shigotry]