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by baha_man 4182 days ago
"Guns are, somewhat counter-intuitively, one of the more survivable suicide methods."

Source? This study gives a 'case fatality rate' of 85% for firearms, 69% for suffocation, and 2% for poisoning:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/case-f...