[yankeedame]

Men, generally, commit suicide by a shot to the head [women to the chest]. Unusual suicide!

Wrong. Women almost never, ever commit suicide with a gun.

We women are vain creatures to the very end. Even in voluntary death we do not want to damage our features. Women will, instead, cut their wrists; use gas (in the garage w/ the motor running, or the kitchen with the gas stove unlit); take poison; take sleeping pills; mix medicine-and-alcohol (Dave Berry's mother committed suicide this way), or leap from a great height.

It's also curious that the Admiral chose to shoot himself in the chest-- an awkard and uncertain way to go about it: You must push the trigger away from you, and you must use your thumb(s).

[Chapita]

During the time I was in law enforcement, I never saw a woman shoot herself in the head but I did see three women shoot themselves in the chest.

It was Dr. Skinner, a medical examiner for Pinellas County, Florida, who told our academy class what I said.

You chose!

[Ford Fairlane]

Fill your mouth with liquid (if I ever did it it would be the last of the bottle of the best Irish whiskey), insert pistol to mouth, pull trigger - your head is instantaneously blown off, no pain (as if the rest of the bottle of Irish wouldn't take care of that)

[GATOR NAVY]

Even in voluntary death we do not want to damage our features. Women will, instead...

leap from a great height.

That example there sounds pretty "feature damaging" to me.

It's also curious that the Admiral chose to shoot himself in the chest-- an awkard and uncertain way to go about it: You must push the trigger away from you, and you must use your thumb(s).

He shot himself through the ribbons-not curious when you think about it.