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All right, first of all, the disclaimer - no matter how bad you think it is, A) it CAN be worse and B) it will get better if you pull through. If you are seriously considering suicide, please, please, please call a suicide hotline, seek the help of a relative or friend, or hell, e-mail me... I'll try and talk you out of it.
That said, I do believe that everyone has the right to end their own life if they are really, truly sure they are ready to cease their existance eternally. Let's be clear, though - there's no coming back. There's no afterlife. Dead is worm food.
Alright, enough doom and gloom! Let's talk methods!! Most of this is taken from the alt.suicide.holiday methods file, which you can easily find many copies of with any decent web search engine.
Basically, the least painful and messy way is inhaling hydrogen cynanide gas. Death in minutes, no pain, and no external damage. Unfortunatly the ingredients for this are very difficult to obtain.
The primary advantage of the shotgun is that provided you're over 18 it's very easy to get. But boy that's messy as fuck. And if you're not careful you can kill the guy in the next apartment too when the pellets finish tearing your brain stem into ragged shards, go through the wall, and embed themselves into the poor sap. You're not exactly around to say sorry afterwards.
A nice compromise seems to be the Jonestown/Heaven's Gate method - alcohol, barbituates, and a plastic bag rubber-banded around the neck. Slip into a coma and suffocate peacefully.
There are a lot more, but these are the most popular/effective.
-Ben
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