I once tried to commit suicide when I was 10, with a GameCube controller.
At the time, games were the only real thing I saw worth living for.
[QUOTE=crackberry;29309366]Who even knows about suicide at this age?[/QUOTE]
This kid :downs:
[QUOTE=qaffai;29308292]sad yes, but that's what gaming does to you. he was young and weak, and couldn't handle it. thank god i started my gaming career when i was 14 years old.[/QUOTE]
Rated you dumb for bragging about how you earned such a prestigious career
Hold on, isn't there a Control-Alt-Delete comic where that retard tries to hang himself with a 360 controller but fails because it's wireless?
Well, I guess even the shittiest artists can provide some sort of inspiration.
Can't blame the kid, I'd want to hang myself after reading that shit too.
I hate saying it, but the article seemed like it was written by a child. Almost no conjunctions.
But really, hanging yourself seems like the worst way to go. At least in an execution, they have it break your neck rather than strangle you.
I am confused, if he is a survivor of a cancer, and didn't try to kill himself before, why did he suicide at this age?
Reminds me a lot of the case a few months back where the kid (jumped?) off his bunk bed to go down for dinner while playing Xbox. He accidently hanged himself with the cord.
[editline]20th April 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=The Spie;29311015]I am confused, if he is a survivor of a cancer, and didn't try to kill himself before, why did he suicide at this age?[/QUOTE]
He died in Black Ops
"Yes, yes, yes! Finally beat Portal 2..."
*whips controller at closet* *continues to cheer*
"Whoo, aw yeah, oh look, a button on my controller fell out, i'll just go pick it- woooAHH"
-slip-
My depression started at the age of seven, I tried shooting myself with my dad's pistol but either couldn't pull the trigger hard enough or I couldn't figure the safety out. I forget.
[QUOTE=XanKriegor;29311126]My depression started at the age of seven, I tried shooting myself with my dad's pistol but either couldn't pull the trigger hard enough or I couldn't figure the safety out. I forget.[/QUOTE]
This thread is about the 10 year old who killed himself.
Just saying, he most likely knew what he was doing, he just didn't know how to handle what he was feeling yet. Which is still sad.
[QUOTE=qaffai;29308292]sad yes, but that's what gaming does to you. he was young and weak, and couldn't handle it. thank god i started my gaming career when i was 14 years old.[/QUOTE]
ha ha ha are you serious do you seriously think video games will drive a person to suicide
A 10 year old shouldn't even be thinking about stuff like this.
[quote] It appeared he had used the cord of a gaming system to hang himself.[/quote]
What system?
If it was a PS3 Sony will sue the parents for improper use of the controller.
i blame video games especially gta4
Well this..sucks.
[QUOTE=eXiv2;29312368]If it was a PS3 Sony will sue the parents for improper use of the controller.[/QUOTE]
couldn't hang yourself with a PS3 controller, the usb cable would come unplugged
That's amazing. We can't ever picture why he may have done it, we have no idea what was going on in his family etc to tell.
Whelp. Best to get it out of the way early!
[QUOTE=Moose;29308233]
when i was 10 i was humping the couch[/QUOTE]
I thought i was the only one! :v:
[QUOTE=nemmises5;29309509]this is the only thread in the entire time I have ever been on Facepunch that has actually made me sad[/QUOTE]
You think this is sad? Wait 'til you see a thread on an animal that's been killed.
ITT: We talk about why wireless controllers are the way forward...
We have to stop for a moment here and think about how fast kids are thinking.
Hell, there's a kid, I think he's 8 years old in my junior karate class, he's always making a knot out of his belt and asking others to hang him, as a joke! He almost passed out a couple of weeks ago. That kid drives me fucking nuts.
Seriously, people need to talk to their kids about death. I know I will.
My guess is that it was an accident, perhaps he'd seen an image or a movie or something like that and wanted to tie a knot himself. Kids' minds work that way.
[QUOTE=GunFox;29309364]Wow, hanging is generally pretty rare for kids. Suicide is obviously rare in general for kids, but hanging?
At 10 years old, your body doesn't physically have enough mass to snap your neck. Even for adults many hangings are botched and require two or three attempts. For a kid, you basically can't do it no matter how many times you try. Basically it was total strangulation that killed him.
EDIT: Oh wait, news section, gotta add in a heartless comment here.
Achievement unlocked: Shitty way to go.[/QUOTE]
More precisely, your neck snaps when enough stress is applied. In the case of a person falling with a noose around their neck, this stress is caused by the noose resisting gravitation and decelerating the body. Weight alone rarely snaps a healthy person's neck, so deceleration is also needed. Therefore, before the rope tightens, you need to accelerate a bit - you need to fall.
A child's neck is probably weaker than an adult's, but if we assumed that they snapped equally easily, the factor determining whether their neck snaps is their momentum when the rope tightens. The reasoning for this is that the rope is a bit elastic: it takes an insignificantly small but still nonzero time to completely decelerate the body. The force decelerating the body is the derivative of the body's momentum with respect to time, but assuming time remains a constant (i.e. the time it takes to decelerate the child is the same as the time it takes to decelerate an adult - this is property of the rope), momentum becomes the sole remaining difference.
Mass is only one of the factors of momentum. If a child knew that they require the momentum M to snap their neck, they could calculate their required velocity and thus the falling height with the following formulae:
[img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?M%20=%20mv%20%5CRightarrow%20v%20=%20{M%20%5Cover%20m}[/img]
With constant gravitational acceleration and zero initial velocity:
[img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?h%20=%20{1%5Cover2}gt^2%20%5CRightarrow%20t%20=%20%5Csqrt{{2h%5Cover%20g}}[/img]
[img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?v%20=%20gt%20=%20g%5Csqrt{{2h%5Cover%20g}}%20=%20%5Csqrt{2gh}[/img]
From this equation one can solve one's falling height:
[img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?%5Csqrt{2gh}%20=%20{M%20%5Cover%20m}[/img]
[img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?h%20=%20{M^2%20%5Cover%20{2gm^2}}[/img]
The approximate value of M a child could get for example by examining an adult hanging themselves. Knowing from which height the adult fell and their mass, if the adult's neck snapped, their momentum was sufficient to snap their neck. If their momentum was sufficient to snap an adult's neck, it probably is enough to do the same to a child.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;29312574]couldn't hang yourself with a PS3 controller, the usb cable would come unplugged[/QUOTE]
They thought of everything. Maybe it was to stop Geohot from killing himself when he found about the court case.
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