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A type of suicide that sometimes shows up in eastern works. Need to kill yourself in a hurry without using your hands? Just bite your tongue ''really'' hard! It’s like having a stored a [[Cyanide Pill]] in your mouth, but you don’t need to prepare in advance. |
A type of suicide that sometimes shows up in eastern works. Need to kill yourself in a hurry without using your hands? Just bite your tongue ''really'' hard! It’s like having a stored a [[Cyanide Pill]] in your mouth, but you don’t need to prepare in advance. This probably works better in fiction than real life. |
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An involuntary similar action might be preformed (in fiction) by someone undergoing a seizure, although in this case the concern is being swallowed, not bitten off (although this is a myth https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/06/swallowing-your-tongue-and-other-epilepsy-myths/ ). |
An involuntary similar action might be preformed (in fiction) by someone undergoing a seizure, although in this case the concern is being swallowed, not bitten off (although this is a myth https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/06/swallowing-your-tongue-and-other-epilepsy-myths/ ). |