(October 4, 2015 at 9:43 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(October 4, 2015 at 9:19 am)Crossless1 Wrote: One of my daughters is an ER nurse. They recently had a veteran who suffered from PTSD and had tried to kill himself with a shotgun to the head. Somehow, he survived the wound and will likely spend the rest of his life in a more or less vegetative state. It's hard to believe a self-inflicted head from a shotgun wouldn't be lethal, but it does happen. Bullets are an even more uncertain method of suicide since the slug can take weird, unpredictable paths once it's entered the body.
Always thought a shotgun to the head would be enough!
When I was in EMT training, to demonstrate an avulsive wound, they showed us video of a guy who'd attempted suicide by shotgun under the chin. It blew his mouth and nose off, and split his face open to the forehead, but he was conscious the whole time, trying to talk ... you could see the blood bubbling in his throat as his eyes wandered from one rescue person to the next.
