Is there a chance of your neck breaking during full suspension?

[Siagos]

I had always assumed full suspension was not fundamentally different from partial, but something I read here recently has me worried that full suspension could break my neck and leave me paralyzed.

 

[Jrmull1993]

Even partial suspension runs the risk of breaking the neck, but when done properly, even after breaking a neck can easily be a successful exit.

When done from a high enough point, the broken neck alone prove fatal.

 

[veryhappyhuman]

I dont think FS can cause neck break unless you're obese or very physically frail (e.g have a bone-weakening disorder) or you drop from a great height.

Partial is even less likely (i'd say near impossible) to cause this. There's simply not enough pull force on the vertebra to break it with both feet grounded.

 

[Jrmull1993]

Partial is even less likely (i'd say near impossible) to cause this. There's simply not enough pull force on the vertebra to break it with both feet grounded.

I do agree with that statement, but one interesting fact is that Jeffrey Epstein's "Suicide" (allegedly via non suspension hanging) did result in a broken Hyoid Bone and spacial separation of the atlas vertebra.



Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cb...-autopsy-a-closer-look-60-minutes-2020-01-05/

 

[veryhappyhuman]

I do agree with that statement, but one interesting fact is that Jeffrey Epstein's "Suicide" (allegedly via non suspension hanging) did result in a broken Hyoid Bone and spacial separation of the atlas vertebra.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cb...-autopsy-a-closer-look-60-minutes-2020-01-05/

I don't want to get into the whole conspiracy around this (and derail the thread) but I'll just say this -- there is so much missing/contradicting info there, that we can't glean much ctb info from JE's death in particular. This line from your link sums it up the best:

without one image—the position of how Epstein's body was found in his cell—it is difficult to determine the cause of death with certainty

I believe Hyoid bone breaking is more common in strangulation than hanging. But in any case it's separate from other bones and it breaking doesn't lead to paralysis so we can discount it for the purposes of this thread. The atlas vertebra is more relevant but I can't find mention of it in your source. It just seems logically impossible to me that a healthy person could dislocate/fracture vertebrae in PS.