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Posted on 03-20-08 01:32:26 PM Link | Quote
But uh...

Yea...why go through the intricacies of doing this?

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Posted on 03-20-08 01:35:37 PM Link | Quote
Wow... Just wow...

It's an interesting way to die, but WHY?
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Posted on 03-20-08 02:14:20 PM (last edited by Anya at 03-20-08 11:15 AM) Link | Quote
Suicide booth(machine)? Sounds like too much Futurama to me. Okay, so its more like an episode of Family Guy, but sorry, suicide booth was the first thing that came to mind.

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Posted on 03-20-08 02:40:51 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Shion
Yea...why go through the intricacies of doing this?

If you want something that does the job, why not?

It also shows just how determined he was to get rid of himself.

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Posted on 03-20-08 03:45:55 PM Link | Quote
Whatever happened to gun-to-head-pull-trigger?

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Posted on 03-20-08 03:49:30 PM Link | Quote
Bah, there's no style in doing that anymore. Might as well do it big, so then people can go, "oh yea, thats the guy who made a contraption to kill myself."

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Posted on 03-20-08 03:51:29 PM Link | Quote
Yea but...that's not something I would want on my tombstone either.

Sides, I couldn't commit suicide. I don't have the time to.

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Posted on 03-20-08 03:54:01 PM Link | Quote
Another reason might also be as a protest against his family deciding he needed to be cared for.

I am not an expert in psychology (or even a novice, for that matter) but... building a large, complex device to do this must show at least some capability to handle things. It's always possible that was also part of the goal, as a final defiant act to show that he was not needing this.

...

Or you could just say he wanted to go out with an impressive bang, which also works, I guess.

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Posted on 03-20-08 03:55:51 PM Link | Quote
This makes me want to create a device that will shoot me in the head after I jump off a skyscraper and have the bullet connect 10 feet above the ground.

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Posted on 03-20-08 05:45:55 PM (last edited by HyperHacker at 03-20-08 02:46 PM) Link | Quote
Jul - Post #2437 - 03-20-08 12:45:55pm
I love the headline. I wonder if he didn't do it this way thinking "it's not technically suicide if a robot kills me instead of killing myself" or something. Or maybe he wanted to build a robot. "I feel like killing myself, but I also kinda feel like making a robot... OF COURSE!"
Knowing my luck, were I to try this, it'd shoot me in the foot repeatedly until I went over and pulled the plug or something.

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Posted on 03-20-08 06:15:47 PM Link | Quote
Maybe he thought no one would except the mechanism holding a gun as his "suicide machine", thinking it would cause some unsolvable mystery. Or it could just be a plethora of other reasons.
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Posted on 03-21-08 12:23:37 AM Link | Quote

Somewhat old wintery layout!
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Originally posted by Hajitsu
This makes me want to create a device that will shoot me in the head after I jump off a skyscraper and have the bullet connect 10 feet above the ground.
Better get it right on the first try... your margin of error is KINDA slim ;D

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Posted on 03-21-08 03:25:34 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Kattwah
Originally posted by Hajitsu
This makes me want to create a device that will shoot me in the head after I jump off a skyscraper and have the bullet connect 10 feet above the ground.
Better get it right on the first try... your margin of error is KINDA slim ;D

That's why physics exists!

Anyway, he may have done this thinking that it wasn't suicide at all, but rather forcing someone else to kill him. Some people are opposed to suicide...he may be one of them.

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