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Suicide Mistaken For Halloween Decoration

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Body hanging from tree mistaken for Halloween decoration

Friday, October 28, 2005; Posted: 2:06 a.m. EDT (06:06 GMT)

FREDERICA, Delaware (AP) -- The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.

The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said.

The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.

State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later.

"They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.

"It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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I could see that happening as far as people thinking it wasn't real. Someone here had rigged up a Halloween display years ago to look like a guy hanging off his roof. The Police Department had calls because people thought it was real and the person was in danger.
 
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jimotis4heisman said:
i had heard if done correctly it is an instant killer. fwiw i have never seen it so i dont really know.
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If done correctly the neck is broken immediately. You can get into trouble if you drop with too much slack. It can rip your head off....which wouldn't be good, but since you'd be dead I guess it wouldn't matter.
If you don't drop far enough you die more slowly from strangulation.
 
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If done correctly the neck is broken immediately. You can get into trouble if you drop with too much slack. It can rip your head off....which wouldn't be good, but since you'd be dead I guess it wouldn't matter.
If you don't drop far enough you die more slowly from strangulation.
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Let that be a lesson. If you are going to commit suicide make sure you are well hung.
 
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exhawg said:
Hopefully the lady wasn't doing it as a cry for help hoping someone would stop her. If you are going to kill yourself is hanging really the way to go?
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if you don't know what your doing hanging yourself can be a very time consuming and a reasonably horrible way to go. most suicide attempts are a cry for help. id assume this one was as well. think about it, according to the article it was done in a VERY visible area. it was done very high off the ground. 15 feet? you don't need much more than a few inches higher than you are tall. the body was noticed at breakfast time so she was likely, subconsiously or not, doing this when people would be heading to work so they could see. what better time to be seen than during the morning commute? very sad :(.

imo, the only people who commit suicide and actually want to die rather than as a misguided attempt to seek help are people who go to remote places and kill themselves in a very immediate fashion. anytime i hear someone killed themselves using pills or slicing their wrists or like this... expecially doing so at their home or someplace reletively public. imo they were looking for someone to stop them. unfortunately more often than not the isolation that often drives these people to such extrodinary ends to gain the attention they so desperately desire is the same isolation that keeps people from being in a position to realize it is happening in the first place. its a vicious cycle. they want to scare people into paying attention to them. but the reason they are going to such extreme measures is because noone is paying attention in the first place...
 
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martinss01 said:
if you don't know what your doing hanging yourself can be a very time consuming and a reasonably horrible way to go. most suicide attempts are a cry for help. id assume this one was as well. think about it, according to the article it was done in a VERY visible area. it was done very high off the ground. 15 feet? you don't need much more than a few inches higher than you are tall. the body was noticed at breakfast time so she was likely, subconsiously or not, doing this when people would be heading to work so they could see. what better time to be seen than during the morning commute? very sad :(.

imo, the only people who commit suicide and actually want to die rather than as a misguided attempt to seek help are people who go to remote places and kill themselves in a very immediate fashion. anytime i hear someone killed themselves using pills or slicing their wrists or like this... expecially doing so at their home or someplace reletively public. imo they were looking for someone to stop them. unfortunately more often than not the isolation that often drives these people to such extrodinary ends to gain the attention they so desperately desire is the same isolation that keeps people from being in a position to realize it is happening in the first place. its a vicious cycle. they want to scare people into paying attention to them. but the reason they are going to such extreme measures is because noone is paying attention in the first place...
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Thanks for the buzzkill...
 
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