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Hammond Edward "Ham" Fisher (September 24, 1900 [some sources indicate 1901] – December 27, 1955) was an American comic strip writer and cartoonist. He is best known for his long, popular run on Joe Palooka , which was launched in 1930 and ranked as one of the top five newspaper comics strips for several years.
Joe Palooka is an American comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist Ham Fisher.The strip debuted on April 19, 1930 [1] and was carried at its peak by 900 newspapers.
— Link to PDF of data source (from bottom of Table 1) Technical description: — height of bar shows lethality (percent of time a suicide attempt results in death) — width of bar shows percent of time each method is used in a suicide attempt — by implication, the area of each bar represents the total number of lethal attempts for each method
The book rates more than a dozen methods of euthanasia according to reliability and peacefulness scales. Strategies covered by the books include: the use of gases such as nitrogen , poisons such as carbon monoxide , prescription drugs such as insulin and the opiates , and former prescription drugs such as the barbiturates . [ 2 ]
The suicide bag with inert gas method was originally developed by John Hofsess and the NuTech group, which consisted of Hofsess, Derek Humphry, engineers and physicians. [ 9 ] In the book Final Exit by Derek Humphry , a suicide bag was described as a large plastic bag with an adjustable velcro strip around the neck.
Topics about Suicide methods in general should be placed in relevant topic categories. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
Forced suicide is a method of execution where the victim is coerced into committing suicide to avoid facing an alternative option they perceive as much worse, such as being tortured to death, suffering public humiliation, or having friends or family members imprisoned, tortured or killed.
Exit is a not-for-profit, pro-euthanasia organisation based in Scotland that lobbies for and provides information about voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide.It has particularly focused on research and publication of works which provide information about suicide methods, including How to Die With Dignity, the first book published on the subject.