• oktherebuddy@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    People really can survive getting shot in the head unfortunately.

    CW: suicide

    I’m friends with some doctors who work in emergency psych units and there are an alarmingly high number of patients who try to shoot themselves in the head and fail to die in various ways that maim them terribly and make their life so much worse than it was before.

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      I understand what you’re saying, but execution style shootings are different from a failed suicide attempt. Most of the time it’s someone becoming squeamish at the last second and throwing the angle off which results in a botched attempt unfortunately.

    • GinAndJuche@hexbear.netM
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      10 months ago

      what caliber is a mandatory question here. Then again, I went to school with a kid who died on a fishing boat when a 22 went off accidentally and got him right in the (head, eye).