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Yes, however alcohol reduces frostbite and... Ventricular fibrillation. "Perhaps this protective effect causes the observed higher survival rate in hypothermics who had been drinking, compared to those who were sober."

On second thoughts, if you want to eat at any time soon, don't.

It removes the ability of suicidal individuals to use an extremely effective means of suicide. Since suicide is by far the leading cause of firearm death in countries like Canada with low firearm violence, banning guns in such countries lowers the number of suicides by virtue of making any attempt at suicide less likely to succeed.

I think the next most common method, is hanging which is also highly lethal, so it wouldn't make suicide attempts less likely to succeed. Hanging is preferred by women over guns.

(Certainly, some of those people would keep trying until they succeeded, but many would not, and would go on to be healthy and productive members of society.)

I'm not so sure about that. More info here http://suicidemethods.net/

Save up a whole bunch of appleseeds.
Eat 'em, chewing real hard.

Problem solved.

Or dip a rag in gasoline, wrap a rubber band real tight around your neck, then sit down and suck gas fumes.

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The mortality of kids named Azaria by both hanging and dingo attacks in Australia is three fold that of the normal mortality rates, therefore, naming your kid Azaria is another way of getting them to commit suicide, which makes you a criminal mastermind in Australia.

Just kidding.

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