General Man cuts off his own head with a chainsaw

[The Helper]

The last resident in a block of flats due to be demolished cut his own head off with a chainsaw to highlight the 'injustice' of being asked to move out, an inquest heard today.

Desperate David Phyall, 50, plugged the electric chainsaw into the mains and attached a timer to the socket.

He then wrapped sellotape around the machine's trigger to secure it in the 'on' position and tied the handle of the saw to a table leg to hold it steady.

Mr Phyall rested the saw on his neck and waited for the timer to go off.

Whole story here.

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I say if you are going to kill yourself, which I do not advocate at all, you should at least be creative like this guy.

 

[Seb!]

I say if you are going to kill yourself, which I do not advocate at all, you should at least be creative like this guy.

Here, here.

 

[EatShrooms]

He's got---.. had balls of steel

 

[Lord_Phoenix]

He's got---.. had balls of steel

totally, I couldn't do that even if I wanted to... talk about a painful way to die.

 

[MurderMode]

totally, I couldn't do that even if I wanted to... talk about a painful way to die.

I reckon, it could have gone wrong in so many ways and just left him dying there in a horribly painful way. I don't think killing yourself would really make the point he wanted to, but at least no one is really going to want to rent his apartment. Freak

 

[Sim]

> talk about a painful way to die.

They say he died instantly. I do believe they're right after reading the details, at least on the pain part. Apparently, the chainsaw took care of 3/4 of his neck within not even half a second. At which point your brain doesn't really receive any more "IT HURTS!!11" signals anyway!

Though, still apparently, a man still lives for a few undefined moments before dying when hurt in that manner (Like when your head is cut off). Must be strange a sensation.

If we can call it a sensation when you can't sense your whole body at all.

 

[Kelv]

Also, the shock factor would completely override whatever pain was being felt.

 

[Miz]

-20 Points for Suicide
+10 Points for Creativity
+15 Points for the Balls
_______________________
+5 Points... Have a nice Day

Really I don't think, even if I wanted to kill myself, have the guts to do this...
I would totally regret it when I was laying down for that timer to go off :thdown:

 

[Pineapple]

This totally reminds me of the guy who killed himself by building a guillotine in his back yeard to chop his head off.

I tell ya, it stuff like this that will make heads roll.

 

[denmax]

It's just one of those cases that "I died without getting hurt !!!!".

Seriously, if you don't want to be moved out, then stay -.- (which I do not encourage)

 

[BANANAMAN]

What an....Awesome way to die...

 

[Septimus]

> talk about a painful way to die.

They say he died instantly. I do believe they're right after reading the details, at least on the pain part. Apparently, the chainsaw took care of 3/4 of his neck within not even half a second. At which point your brain doesn't really receive any more "IT HURTS!!11" signals anyway!

Though, still apparently, a man still lives for a few undefined moments before dying when hurt in that manner (Like when your head is cut off). Must be strange a sensation.

If we can call it a sensation when you can't sense your whole body at all.

If I am not mistaken, a human brain could still function for few second even it separate from the body.

 

[Vestras]

He's got---.. had balls of steel

In his case I would rather have a neck of steel.

 

[vypur85]

If we read too much detective novels or comics, then we might suspect that this could be murder .



The hardest part of this death is to wait the timer ticks off.... I wonder what he was thinking while waiting for the timeout. But I would say that he should be lucky that he died in the attempt. I mean, imagine if the saw cuts his head halfway and then malfunction...and he's not dead...yet. Damn that's painful! May he rest in peace.

 

[eellem1]

CRAZY!!! Well, not any more. What a hell of a way to go.

 

[UndeadDragon]

Very creative, very painful and very quick.

 

[Flare]

Hmmm - seems a bit of an over-the-top method of protesting against injustice, couldn't he just done something else? ¬.¬

If I am not mistaken, a human brain could still function for few second even it separate from the body.

Even if the brain still functioned, it'd have to receive signals from the nerves to actually realise that there was pain (even though there probably is/was some on the head-side :|)

In his case I would rather have a neck of steel.

Well, if you're going out of your way to make a point by killing yourself, not being capable of killing yourself does make it somewhat pointless

Maybe this should be on that list of manly ways to kill yourself?

 

[Varine]

What's with all the suicides?

 

[Seb!]

They're just getting reported more. Suicides, murders, etc. have been happening at the same rate (even more) in the past. The internet and assorted media just brings it to the public eye in a way that newspaper cannot.