DO IT – Nr. 16

I hate death. I think it’s rude. I love life. However, I think that suicide is the perfect way to deal with life. The problem with life is not knowing when you die, so with suicide you can choose a point where you die, you can say ‘this is where I decide it ends’. A good way to do it is using one of these [takes a gun out of the drawer]. There are many ways to do it using one of these. A few ways I thought of is like this [points the gun under his chin], this way [points the gun at his temple], like this [points his gun at his forehead], or like this [puts the gun in his mouth]. They’re all wrong.

This way’s wrong [points the gun at his temple], you can blow your eyes out and be blinded and still survive. This  way [points the gun under his chin] you can shoot your whole face off and survive and be without a face. This way [puts the gun in his mouth], again, you can shoot your whole face off from the top up, and you will survive. And this way [points his gun at his forehead], there’s problems because you have a tendency to turn the gun and you can shoot under your brain and into your spine and survive and be paralyzed.

If you really want to die using a gun, the best and most obvious way to do it is like this [puts the gun against the top of his head pointing down].


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