Banker found dead with throat slit in apparent suicide: cops

[TorchTheWitch]

73. I think you imagine "slitting" as slicing the throat open

as if it was done by someone else. But one doesn't think of slitting one's wrists as hacking into the flesh as if to remove the hand. That's why I'm thinking in personally slitting one's own throat would be the same as slitting their wrists... just opening a vein to bleed out, not cutting deep into the flesh. I also don't think that it was the throat so much as more to the side of the neck where major veins are.

If that was the way of it, and I'm guessing it was, then I can think of a whole lot of other horrific methods particularly those that take a lot of time while conscious like jumping, drowning or slow hanging that chokes one to death rather than a quick neck snap. Slitting one's throat in the same manner as slitting one's wrists seems pretty benign to me. While bloody, one would lose consciousness pretty quickly and wouldn't be aware for the rest. Drowning in particular seems one of the worst. I can't even imagine how terrible to be holding one's breath for long minutes knowing that any second they'd give out and have to suck in water. Choking to death can take a very long time and seems another conscious horror of awareness. Jumping if done from very high can take long seconds before the splat, and if not high enough may not kill instantly at all.

I watched rather recently a documentary about the people that jumped or fell from the twin towers on 9/11. In all the years since it happened I couldn't stomach watching things like that from that day, so this was the first for me. It horrified me when they said it took something like 10 or more seconds of free fall before hitting the ground and that in doing the autopsies discovered that all of them were conscious during the fall and died when they hit. I can't even fathom how unbearably long that 10 seconds was and to be aware of it all the way through. Ugh. And what would they also be physically feeling while free falling so fast? What would that do to one's body?

Now I wish I never watched the documentary at all though all these years I'd had morbid curiosity and almost a wretched feeling of needing to know the worst from that day. I still wish they hadn't rebuilt. I don't know how anyone will ever be able to look at new towers in that place and not be vividly reminded of what happened with the old ones and how many people suffered so horribly. I know I can't stand to look at the one they just finished.

No, to me the most horrible methods are the ones that take what can be a terrible amount of time where they're conscious and aware especially if also feeling pain during that time. Though other ways are certainly more bloody and gross, at least they're instant or they go unconscious before death quickly.

I just realized what an odd and depressing subject this is. Can't say I've ever actually thought about any of it before. Don't think I want to again either. I feel like I now need a rose to smell or a basket of puppies.