What do you mean by painless?

[Tautochrome]

Maybe a stupid semantic question, but are you guys really only afraid of pain? In my hierarchy of unpleasant sensations, standard physical pain, even intense, doesn't land anywhere near the top. Choking, being unable to breathe, nausea (I'm emetophobic), lack of control, intense pressure - these I find much more traumatic. So when you say you want things "painless", do you also exclude other sensations, or is the focus on normal pain?

 

[Forever Sleep]

For me- the word encompasses anything traumatic. So- like you say- breathlessness isn't exactly painful always but, it is stressful. The hope would be to have a peaceful death. Although, I feel like most DIY methods can only be relatively peaceful at best. And, only when you compare them side by side to other DIY methods that have the potential to be much worse.

 

[itsgone2]

None of it. I don't want any of it. Give me a switch. Let me just turn it all off.

 

[Intoxicated]

Attributes like "painless" and "peaceful" don't look informative and seem useless for me. Neither adequately describes the amount of physical or overall discomfort. A "painless" CTB method (f.e., hypothermia when it doesn't produce perceived muscle spasms) can be more unpleasant than some "painful" methods (f.e., full hanging). A conventionally "peaceful" method like barbiturate OD can be more unpleasant than a conventionally "violent" method like headshot with firearm.

 

[BrokenByTheSystem]

Painless is a good start, even tho you have an absolute valid point, there are way more suff to be afraid of than just physical pain.

 

[nihilistic_dragon]

For me it's just closing my eyes and never waking up. It's one of the reason I would like to get my hands on N.

 

[Mr.Tristesse]

Attributes like "painless" and "peaceful" don't look informative and seem useless for me. Neither adequately describes the amount of physical or overall discomfort. A "painless" CTB method (f.e., hypothermia when it doesn't produce perceived muscle spasms) can be more unpleasant than some "painful" methods (f.e., full hanging). A conventionally "peaceful" method like barbiturate OD can be more unpleasant than a conventionally "violent" method like headshot with firearm.

It is true that violence is a separate category from painfulness/peacefulness. Instant death by head shot or trauma by jumping for example is very violent but being instant it can't be said to be painful (if it proves to be instant). Even then that horrible violence is only relevant to observers after the fact.

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

For me it's just closing my eyes and never waking up. It's one of the reason I would like to get my hands on N.

Wouldn't we all...

 

[burninghill]

Pain isn't necessarily something I ever considered when choosing a method, honestly.

I think, generally, the more 'painless' methods are also the ones more guaranteed (like gunshots, large heights and train decapitation), so it wasn't so much that I was scared of pain but that I wanted a method that was as guaranteed as possible and 'painlessness' happened to come with it.

I'm less scared of pain and more scared of… distress? Like, a method where I couldn't breathe is something I could never do.