Can the person not just hold on to the rope and pull themselves up and grab whatever the rope is hanged from and free themslves? I read a post about suicide survivors, and they usually regret it mid way before killing themselves. So hypothetically can’t a person just pull themselves up from being hanged if they regret it mid way?
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I’m very experienced with rope climbing.
tl;dr yes it’s possible but more difficult than you think. You need some serious physical strength to do it.
Let’s say I had a hangman noose around my neck and I just kicked off the chair. My feet can’t reach the chair or any surface. I’m hanging.
I’ll be panicking because of my body firing off alarm bells. I need to raise both my arms up, grab the rope, and pull myself up. My oxygen is cut off. I have limited oxygen and time before I go unconcious and die. Muscles use oxygen. A lot of oxygen.
If I used a thin rope, this could make it very difficult to grip and pull upwards, and could slice into my neck.
Let’s say you used some nice thick rope fibre that is easy to grip to do this.
Most people can’t even do a pullup. I’ve heard estimates that only 20% of men can do a pullup. And gripping a rope and heaving up requires tremendous body upper body strength and strong hands. I can’t use my legs to help me climb the rope. Its purely arms.
Now even if I pulled myself up, what now?
I need to free one of my hands to remove that loop off my neck!
And what if that loop is tightened? How do I untighten it?
Do I need to use of my hands to loosen the rope and take it off?
Can my one hand and arm have enough strength to hold on and keep myself up and stop myself from choking to death?
If you don’t have some serious grip and upper body strength, you’re going to die. You will not be able to recover in time.
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