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Blowing your brains out usually works, but it's not foolproof. You'd be amazed what a person can survive. As bad as your situation may be I guarantee it'll be worse with half your head missing. Get some help to find the way to living your best life. You can do it.
So what your saying is don't bet on a single solution, so like take pills too?
Pills didn't work for my grandfather but the intensive course of Lithium and ECT did. He was a different man afterwards.
To be horribly blunt, attempted suicide by pills is a wonderful way to put yourself through feeling worse than you ever thought possible, a shit ton of throwing up, and then more feeling worse than you thought you could until you eventually survive anyway.
And that's if no one finds you in the long amount of time it would take, calls an ambulance, and you end up getting your stomach pumped and racking up more debt in medical bills while still feeling like shit, and now being placed on suicide watch.
There are incredibly few fool proof ways to commit suicide. Even less that won't cause you to suffer immensely the whole time until it's over. The body instinctively wants to survive despite any of your personal feelings.
As an aside, you should check out the mutual assistance community on lemmy. They may be able to assist you a bit financially to help you improve your situation.
Generally my idea would be to take the pills than shoot myself afterwards, mainly the goal would be making me a hard case for paramedics, unable to figure out what to treat first.
Still not guaranteed, and then you'd likely go to your family to be cared for due to being deemed mentally unfit