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posted by martyb on Friday April 19 2019, @08:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the Death-is-cheap-life-is-expensive-dept dept.

Have you ever wondered what it costs to keep a person alive when they are on the brink of death? Thanks to a post by a suicide survivor who started a rash of posts concerning hospital costs for the mortally challenged we know that the hospital bill for suicide management can be from 10K to 100K. Oliver Jordan clocked up 25,000 likes and hundreds of responses to his post with some people saying it cost them 10K to 20K for a US emergency room visit. Once a patient enters a hospital they can racked many charges often without realising what the end bill will be.

In memory of MDC.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @08:32PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @08:32PM (#832276)

    The government would provide you a clean and sure fire way to end your days.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @09:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @09:45PM (#832313)

    Especially for millennials.

  • (Score: 2, Touché) by realDonaldTrump on Friday April 19 2019, @10:43PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday April 19 2019, @10:43PM (#832342) Homepage Journal

    So true. We have to bring back the Death Penalty!!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @10:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @10:47PM (#832347)

    True. You only need to know the number of the self-SWAT hotline (aka 911). Just remember to give the correct address.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @10:50PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @10:50PM (#832350)

    In the book The Giver, government-provided suicide was called "happy release" iirc.

    However, an exit bag doesn't sound too expensive and sounds fairly foolproof. If/when I decide that it's time for me to initiate discorporation instead of waiting for my body to give out, I'll be using an exit bag. I would hate to leave a mess, and exit bag sounds like the most responsible and most painless method out there with almost no chance of survival.

    Problem with suicide is people watch too many movies, and then they think that taking a bunch of sleeping pills, a gunshot to the head, or cutting the wrists is going to be effective. Sleeping pills = very good chance you're waking up in a suicide ward with a $10,000 hotel bill. Cutting the wrists is like lolwut. Gunshot to the head sounds like it ought to be pretty final, but as it turns out, it's not. The brain is remarkably resilient organ! That means there's a decent chance that you'll not just wake up in a suicide ward with a $10,000 hotel bill, but you'll wake up brain damaged and only a fraction of the person you were before!

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @11:06PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @11:06PM (#832356)

      If you shoot yourself in the head correctly, it's 100% fatal and fast. The problem is that people do it wrong and wind up seriously brain damaged for life.

      Similarly, people frequently shah their wrists incorrectly and wind up in the suicide ward.

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 20 2019, @02:13AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 20 2019, @02:13AM (#832411)

        Yes, too many people put the gun up to their temple. A more sure method is to stick the barrel in your mouth and point it upwards a bit, towards the base of back of your skull where the cerebellum and brain steam are. Also, going to a remote area where you won't be found soon will help, as even if your aim is off a bit you're quite likely to bleed out anyway.

        Personally I've toyed with the idea of committing suicide by strapping my entire gun collection all over myself, and then hanging myself. Leaving them to ponder if it counts as a gun-related death or not. But then in college I minored in non-verbal sarcasm.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Saturday April 20 2019, @09:45AM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday April 20 2019, @09:45AM (#832494) Journal

    That's exactly what they are doing.

    - where am I?
    - in hospital, you botched your suicide attempt
    - oh
    (time passes)
    - how you feel?
    - maybe it's the painkillers talking, but I feel ace doctor, I dunno what was I thinking when i tried to snuff myself
    - fine, your bill is 67000 dollars, are you insured?
    - ummm doctor do you have some arsenic handy?

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