Hello all,
I have been wondering if it would be easier on family and friends to prepare a good "excuse", but I am wondering if this is reliable or simply a useless attempt. I was thinking something along the following lines:
Mention to a few people a persistent headache. It's my understanding that typically, a say 5-day persistent headache would send a reasonable person to the hospital for a visit, after which they would get a CT scan, followed by potentially MRI to investigate (which can AFAIK more or less confirm without a biopsy). Something like a glioblastoma (brain cancer) is as far as I'm aware essentially among the most deadly cancers, almost instantly considered a stage 4 rough equivalent, and has a 5-year survival rate around 10%. As such, wanting to spare the pain and the process to one's self seems at least somewhat understandable.
The idea would be to use a gun to the head as the method. Obviously, there would not actually be hospital records unless I really did try and fake it in an actual visit which could get uncovered. And possibly an autopsy would discover that no, I did not actually have brain cancer. As I live alone, with only weekly-ish contact with certain others, I think this could work in theory and provide a nice mitigation and "white lie" for at least those not closest to me: "he was diagnosed with brain cancer and killed himself after finding out".
Is this purely a fantasy or actually viable? Does anyone know how detailed autopsies are or how often they'd even be ordered for an obvious suicide with a note, and if they'd catch it? If the police would actually follow through about hospital records and discover the deception very easily?
I have been wondering if it would be easier on family and friends to prepare a good "excuse", but I am wondering if this is reliable or simply a useless attempt. I was thinking something along the following lines:
Mention to a few people a persistent headache. It's my understanding that typically, a say 5-day persistent headache would send a reasonable person to the hospital for a visit, after which they would get a CT scan, followed by potentially MRI to investigate (which can AFAIK more or less confirm without a biopsy). Something like a glioblastoma (brain cancer) is as far as I'm aware essentially among the most deadly cancers, almost instantly considered a stage 4 rough equivalent, and has a 5-year survival rate around 10%. As such, wanting to spare the pain and the process to one's self seems at least somewhat understandable.
The idea would be to use a gun to the head as the method. Obviously, there would not actually be hospital records unless I really did try and fake it in an actual visit which could get uncovered. And possibly an autopsy would discover that no, I did not actually have brain cancer. As I live alone, with only weekly-ish contact with certain others, I think this could work in theory and provide a nice mitigation and "white lie" for at least those not closest to me: "he was diagnosed with brain cancer and killed himself after finding out".
Is this purely a fantasy or actually viable? Does anyone know how detailed autopsies are or how often they'd even be ordered for an obvious suicide with a note, and if they'd catch it? If the police would actually follow through about hospital records and discover the deception very easily?
