(October 4, 2015 at 4:33 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(October 3, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There were stats out a while back that gun suicides were successful 85% of the time as opposed to 3% for drug overdoses.
Who are the 15% who miss?
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.
