Odd she’d kill herself leaving “a mess” for others to have to deal with. Taking pills is bad enough but shooting herself? Very selfish imo.
Speaking of messes... We responded to a call where someone tried to kill themself by sawing off their feet with a butchers knife. The young lady had made a serious attempt to kill herself previously by slamming her car into a tree. She was paralyzed from the waist down and had no sensation in her lower extremities.
She opened the door when we rang the bell and was very calm and polite. She let us see the deep wounds that she had inflicted cutting completely through the Achilles tendons on the back of both of her ankles. She was talking to us like nothing serious had happened.
She said she cut through one tendon and could not get any further when she got to the bone; it was bleeding pretty good, but it stopped and she was still alive. So she thought maybe if she did the other it would finish her off. But it stopped bleeding on its own fairly quickly as well.
Then she asked very politely if one of us wouldn't go into the bathroom and clean up the mess so that it wouldn't upset her mother. From her description and the fact that she was talking to us coherently and had a normal blood pressure... I was not expecting to find very much blood. It was a bathroom that was partially carpeted. And in the middle of the carpet there was a huge puddle of coagulated blood at least 18 inches in diameter and at least 3/4 of an inch thick in the middle. I had never seen anything quite like it.
I waited until our paramedics arrived so they could try and estimate how much blood she had lost before cleaning it up. I would have tried to get my crew to do it, but both had a history of being a little squeamish around large quantities of blood. I then basically picked up jelly fish like chunks of blood with my rubber gloved hands and flushed them down the toilet until it was mostly gone and then tried to rinse out the carpet with water and a towel. It did look less horrific after my efforts but there was no saving that section of carpet.