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Chances of it being performed correctly even by an experienced hangman are still fairly low, because you need to adjust the noose, height, duration, etc. based on the person's weight, height, etc.. The average person is incapable of doing this reliably even with sufficient research, because controlling all of these factors is quite difficult. Pick the wrong distance and you could hang there for an hour choking to death, or your head gets ripped off. The "long drop" method is obviously the best way of hanging someone, but considering most people commit suicide as an act of desperation in the spur of the moment rather than carefully plot it out, most won't even bother considering that. Jumping from your bed or a chair is only going to net you a proper drop of six inches or a foot, and that's just not enough.
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O__o. Wow.
Thanks for telling that. I always assumed a strong rope would just snap the neck from any height. But, hopefully, it's no something I'll ever have to test.
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The brace position thing is a pure myth... Just so you know.
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I got that from the feedback column of the New Scientist magazine, where they're trying to find uses for it. Which part was a myth?
Wielder -- maybe you could take, like, famous suicides (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth) and rate them from one to ten?