Quote Originally Posted by arsenal View Post
...very very long sentences. I can't understand why they don't simply go into a locked room with a gun and end it because I think that is definitely preferable to incarceration.
Once you are in captivity, I guess it's very difficult to perform a decent suicide (i.e. fast and without pain). Even in freedom, not many options. All OTC medicine is reasonably safe (you can even die from too much salt, but that's a painful, long, messy process, and when discovered they will bring you back to life). Guns might be available to the average citizen in the US, but not elsewhere. Jumping from a high building takes a lot of guts and inconveniences others.

(Split the thread: How to commit suicide?)