People figured out how to weave and plait about 10,000 years ago and probably started hanging themselves shortly after. children: Last December, a 6-year-old girl in McMinnville, Oregon, became one of the youngest suicides in American history by tying a corduroy belt around her neck and hanging herself from the top railing of a crib.) (It's also the most common suicide method among U.S. Hanging is the most popular method of self-slaughter in the world and the second most popular in the United States, after firearms. Also, those people tend to put a towel around the rope, because if you go to work with lots of lines across your neck"-Frisino drew a forefinger across his throat and grinned-"people might ask: 'You wearing your tie a little tight these days, buddy?'" "If there are many notches in the wood, you've got yourself an autoerotic asphyxiation. "Look at the joist or whatever they've hung themselves on," he said. And he's learned how to tell whether a hanging was a suicide or an erotic accident. He has learned that the sooner he interviews a bereaved family, the more accurate the information will be, because they haven't had time to consult a lawyer or an insurance agent.
He has learned that people who live on houseboats near the Aurora Bridge can recognize the sound of a body splashing into Lake Union. "We see far more deceased folks than any police officer on the beat." "Even if a case is reported as a suicide by the police department, we go in with an open mind," he said. Sometimes you see suicide notes that say, 'Well, this'll show you.' Of course, nobody shows anybody anything, because they're dead."ĭuring his years at the Medical Examiner's Office, Frisino has become something of a scholar of suicide. "Sometimes people really want to hurt themselves or hurt the person who they think is at fault. "I've seen people put tape over their mouths, seen people drown themselves in a barrel of water, and some people jump into machinery," he said. "Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel? Do you imagine that I repine at Providence or curse my creation, because I go out of life, and put a period to a being, which, were it to continue, would render me miserable?" "It would be no crime in me to divert the Nile or Danube from its course," he fumed. People think that God is terribly angry at those us of who kill ourselves, he argued, because people are egotists: "The life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster." "'Tis impious, says the old Roman superstition, to divert rivers from their course," David Hume wrote in a rare (and exasperated) defense of suicide in 1755. The dialysis machine pumped blood out of his body and onto the floor.) (That same month, another King County man exsanguinated himself by cutting his kidney dialysis catheter with scissors. He died, according to the King County medical examiner's report, of "exsanguination," the simple act of diverting a few ounces of blood from the inside of his body to the outside-an act that most people are reluctant to discuss. One week and six King County suicides later (three shootings, two hangings, and one asphyxiation by plastic bag), another Kent sexagenarian killed himself by cutting his feet and legs with a knife. Two days after that, a 66-year-old man overdosed on sedatives, antidepressants, and alcohol in his kitchen in Kent. Two days after that, a 65-year-old woman took an overdose of prescription pills and drowned herself in Lake Washington. The same day somewhere else in King County, a man who'd hanged himself in his bathroom nine years earlier finally succumbed to anoxic encephalopathy and died: a time- delayed suicide. The flames burned through the cord, dropping him into the alley below, where he died of two simultaneous causes-burning and falling.
Last summer, a University of Washington parking-lot attendant hanged himself from the side of a campus garage while setting himself on fire.
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