I got to witness a file with slides at a State Medical Examiner's Convention. The title of the forum for LE was "Not All Homocides are Homocides".

Let's just say a 150gr. SP 30/06 into the hard palate is not always fatal when trying to kill yourself.

A second one after driving down the road a ways is.....

Oh yeah, the first one was stopped by the hard palate and exploded (even uglier than the photo above when shards exit the neck).

Pretty silly logic when just being lucky is all that saved him.

What do they say about if and buts?