Starvation

[Mynameisnotimportant]

I have a BMI if 16 so I am going to eat even less than I already do and give my immune system gets worse and I die from the flu or something. Hopefully it will look like I didn't mean to.

 

[Phro]

From what I understand, suicide by starvation takes a while and can be quite unpleasant.

 

[Deadinside24]

From what I understand, suicide by starvation takes a while and can be quite unpleasant.

Sadly your body can go quite a while without food and while it's starving it eats itself. But depending on your immune system I'm not sure how that would work with the flu. It is almost winter so may be possible to hang out in the rain and get pneumonia. That can be pretty deadly if not treated right.

 

[bigj75]

do not do that method. I had an eating disorder once and my organs started to shut down from starvation. It is very painful.

 

[TheLastStraw]

I agree with the other posters this is one of the top most painful and time consuming methods, you will most likely pass out and just wind up in the hospital

 

[Chinaski]

Depending on where you are, there'll be a point where you pass the threshold required for being sectionable, at which point you'll probably be hospitalised and force-fed long before you die of flu. Bad plan imo.

 

[Clover]

My BMI got to 13, I was completely healthy and ended up in hospital with tubes forced in me. Not fun and not really a successful way to die.

 

[solacely]

This is my backup method if I can't bring myself to pull the trigger. I use my eating disorder as a passive suicide. My body is pretty much already shutting down from being very underweight so it shouldn't be that long from now.

 

[FailedWoman]

I've sort of tried this.
After my attempted paracetamol overdose, my body was unable to properly digest food for a while.
It hurt and eating made me nauseous.
I've read about seniors going out this way, I think in one of the e-books on here (peaceful pill?).

 

[wintergirl]

Starving yourself to death is extremly hard, really really hard.
Even if you have an ED, your body still wants to survive.
If you are not in a cave, impossible to do that. Or you need years.
I have anorexia since 2015...and I'm still here :(

 

[Fixin’ToDie]

My BMI got to 13, I was completely healthy and ended up in hospital with tubes forced in me. Not fun and not really a successful way to die.

Was that due to an eating disorder or were you trying to die through self-starvation? I tried that suicide strategy a few years ago and ended up exactly the same way you did. I still get angry at degradation and humiliation I was subjected to.

 

[bigj75]

find another method.

 

[Clover]

It was neither an eating disorder or a suicide attempt it was due to extreme stress.
But the doctors of course called me anorexic.

 

[Fixin’ToDie]

It was neither an eating disorder or a suicide attempt it was due to extreme stress.
But the doctors of course called me anorexic.

Of course they would! Same with me. It's just a very convenient diagnosis for them to slap on you, so they can legalise that kind of brutality. Nothing will convince them otherwise.

 

[Over n' Out]

I eat about 3000 calories a day. If I cut down, right right down to a mere 2,500 how long to die and will I suffer?

 

[medusa]

I have a BMI if 16 so I am going to eat even less than I already do and give my immune system gets worse and I die from the flu or something. Hopefully it will look like I didn't mean to.

you do know that if you don't eat, they will put you in the hospital and stick a feeding tube up your nose and force feed you and there will be NOTHING you can do about it?
welcome to our health system.
Good times for sure

 

[medusa]

I eat about 3000 calories a day. If I cut down, right right down to a mere 2,500 how long to die and will I suffer?

that's going to take a while for you to starve.
But you will probably be so hungry before long that you will eat anything to survive

 

[Over n' Out]

that's going to take a while for you to starve.
But you will probably be so hungry before long that you will eat anything to survive

Thanks. I won't eat vegetarian sausages though. If the ambulance people turn up with those I'll just flatline instead.

 

[medusa]

Thanks. I won't eat vegetarian sausages though. If the ambulance people turn up with those I'll just flatline instead.

I personally am vegetarian and love fake sausages, but if you don't want them then don't eat them.
Do they even have vegetarian food in the psych ward?

 

[Over n' Out]

Not sure, never been there.

 

[Clover]

They have gluten and dairy free food in the psych ward

 

[Over n' Out]

They have gluten and dairy free food in the psych ward

It sounds worse and worse, omg, that's so inhumane.

 

[Fixin’ToDie]

They have gluten and dairy free food in the psych ward

True but if you're being nasogastrically fed the stuff they give you through the tube is not dairy free.

 

[Morning Angel]

I have a BMI if 16 so I am going to eat even less than I already do and give my immune system gets worse and I die from the flu or something. Hopefully it will look like I didn't mean to.

Considering this.

 

[GeorgeEastman]

Still, I think eating very little is better for the long run. Good chance of dying much earlier of just a cardiac arrest. Heart will just give out on you, but you'll still be kind of old. Better than being older and getting cancer, although if I had cancer I'd probably be a lot more eager to take myself out.

 

[berry]

I eat about 3000 calories a day. If I cut down, right right down to a mere 2,500 how long to die and will I suffer?

You'd be a little more hungry than normal but by no means starving or dying. You'd have to eat below your daily calorie expenditure for your height. The numbers you put just reflect a mild deficit that would either result in weight loss or manage weight.

Cutting to an uber low restriction like 300 calories a day, would be starving status.

 

[MEoDP]

Its one of the worst ways you can try to go,and your willpower is almost guaranteed to falter in the process.

You may as well just jump off a building. While that method is and of itself is very scary,it is actually much more doable and less agonizing(pain and time-wise)than trying to starve yourself to death.

 

[MEoDP]

I eat about 3000 calories a day. If I cut down, right right down to a mere 2,500 how long to die and will I suffer?

No,this isn't starving yourself,if your goal is to diet,this is actually a very reasonable procedure. Reducing your caloric intake by that much(or a little less for some other people,like reducing 250 cal instead of 500)

Its the main method in the e-book I have "Superior Fat Loss" (though there's other more important info in it to make the weight loss journey as smooth and less-sucky as possible)which I plan to execute once I finish college.

 

[windingdown]

If I lived alone, my method would be Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking (VSED). Most people die within 14 days. It may take only a week, or up to 21 days. You die from dehydration rather than starvation, though many people would become very thin in the process.

The more I think about it, the better this method sounds. There is time to mentally prepare to die. Many old people do it. I've read that some people have a really painful time of being so thirsty, while others experience it as a good and peaceful way to die.

I feel sad and regretful that I can't pursue this method (my mom would section me).