[int_handler]

If you want to go that route, then you'll need to also remove the following instruments:

* Ropes or any kind of cords that can be used for hanging * Blades of any kind (kitchen knives, scissors, box cutters, utility knives, etc.) * Anything that can be sharpened into a point that can puncture flesh * Any kind of chemical substance that can be deadly in sufficient quantities. * Any bodies of water where one can drown * Any accessible point that is high enough for one to jump off of.

The list goes on. Eventually, the environment that is left would basically be a padded room in a psychiatric hospital in a straightjacket.

[majos]

To most people a gun is pretty much a button you can press and instantly end your life, and in the hands of a knowledgeable user that's about right. I think that kind of ease makes a gun very different from other methods you list, most of which require some combination of willpower, preparation, and endurance of pain and discomfort.

[paulcole]

Your belief is common but misguided and incorrect. Many suicides are impulsive and if an easy method isn’t available the moment passes and no attempt is made.

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/30/9068255/suicide-impulsive-gun-...

[maxxxxx]

A gun is certainly more attractive as suicide tool than all the things you have listed. It's easy, quick and painless.

[jakhead]

From the story, clearly it isn't. I've a friend who killed himself with a pistol. From the blood spatter around his house it was determined that he shot himself, survived and woke up, put a towel on his head, then shot himself again.

[maxxxxx]

I guess I should have written "It looks quick, easy and painless". If I wanted to kill myself I probably would use a gun.

[PhasmaFelis]

Please don't be disingenuous. Not one of those promises an instant, painless lights-out the way a gun does.

[hhjinks]

None of those leave you without one of the most fundamental parts of your identity if you mess up the attempt.

[jfsid]

About all risk leaving you with severe brain damage. Suffocation, bleeding out.

[lambdadmitry]

That's a fallacy. If you have both of you sneakers untied, I bet you don't refuse to tie the first one (whatever it is) because the second would still be untied.