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Good one, Moose! I hope my going is painless too (altho I have not yet considered means). Amazing family history by the way!!!!Anyone who has told you that freezing is painless has never frozen a limb. Eventually when hypothermia sets in, and the senses are lost, then it may become painless. But up until that point, frozen feet and frozen hands can feel like walking on red-hot coals or handling them.
No, when it's my time, it'll either be an effective narcotic cocktail or inert gases. I'm into expediency, efficiency, and painlessness whenever possible. Consider it part of old-age lethargy.
Edit: My father ODed, and froze to death as an add-on (February 1968). My sister, never to be outdone by others, accomplishments, ODed, slit her wrists, and froze to death (Maybe Winter 2000 or 2001). My brother went down as a gunshot suicide (August 1994), but I'm fairly confident his roommate shot him and helped to make it look like a self-inflicted gunshot.
As stated earlier, my mother ODed on acetaminophen/Tylenol (November 1993), though the determination of 'suicide' by the ME was removed and changed to 'undetermined' as there was insufficient evidence that it was clearly intentional.
Me, I think my referenced and preferred methods are adequate unto themselves, and there's no need to subject oneself to the cold and uncomfortable extremes if the other aspects are handled properly.
But I'm still in the game for now.