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How's the best way to do that? Aim the barrel upwards through the soft palate back at the rear roof of the mouth? Should you use a small caliber like a .22 so you can get some ricochet without such a bad exit wound? I'd think if you just aimed at your uvula unless you completely severed your spinal cord you could wind up seriously paralyzed and fucked up.



It depends. Do you want an open casket? Is not leaving too much of an unpleasant clean-up job high on your priorities?

Considerate people choose small calibre, it usually works fine if you get the aim right - up through the soft palate, as you said, then the bullet will tend to ricochet off the back of the skull and stay inside. The drawback is that death is not generally instantaneous. If you watch the video-recorded suicides of Bud Dwyer and Bjorks crazy stalker, both small calibre jobs, you will see that they bled out heavily through the nose and mouth for a while after pulling the trigger. Evidently their hearts were still beating for some time, but how much pain their scrambled brains were capable of feeling, who can say?

Big calibre is much more instant and certain, but leaves half your head missing and some poor schmuck has to pick up all the bits of skull and scrape your brains off the wall, vs a simple mop-and-bucket job for the small calibre.

Nothing is guaranteed of course. There's a Falklands war vet who lost 43% of his brain and lived to tell the tale, heavily disabled, but not mentally incapacitated.
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