101+ ways to Kill
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Throughout the Ages man has been killing man. Over time, the accumulation of methods of killing has reached staggering proportions. Almost every branch of science has contributed to the insatiable lust to kill.
Some methods are not for the faint-hearted. Others can easily be applied by the most gentle among us. In this book, you will surely find a way for any character to kill without detracting too much from their personality.
Charles G. Dyer
Charles Dyer is a consulting engineer, former senior lecturer and former technical magazine editor. He creates 3D models to help with visualisation and realism in his writing.
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101+ ways to Kill - Charles G. Dyer
101+ ways to
KILL
AN AUTHOR'S GUIDE
CHARLES G. DYER
Copyright © 2013 Charles G. Dyer
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This book is not intended as a manual for miscreants. It was written to aid authors in their quests for variations in their works of fiction. I cannot be held responsible for misuse of the contents.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Hands and Feet
Chapter 3 - Blunt Instruments
Chapter 4 - Edged Weapons
Chapter 5 - Falling
Chapter 6 - Poison
Chapter 7 - Liquid
Chapter 8 - Projectiles
Chapter 9 - Gas
Chapter 10 - Temperature
Chapter 11 - Psychological
Chapter 12 - Machines
Chapter 13 - Explosives
Chapter 14 - Profit
Chapter 15 - Supernatural
CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION
At conception of this book, I thought that I would be hard-pressed to find 101 ways to kill. On completion, this text accounts for more than 160 methods and it has only scratched the surface of this gory subject.
The most untrustworthy and dangerous species on Earth is the human. For thousands of years people have been deceiving and killing each other. As intellect and technology have evolved, both have been vigorously applied to man's insatiable lust for killing.
As omnivorous creatures, humans need meat and so it is understandable that killing is second nature to mankind. However, the majority of humans have never resorted to cannibalism so why the penchant for killing other people?
The reasons are complicated and essentially can be categorised into good and bad motives. The evil motivations for killing stem from greed, jealousy, lunacy, fanaticism, politics, racial divisions and hatred. On the other hand, the so-called good rationality for taking somebody’s life may be fear, self-preservation, protection of innocents, protection of one’s possessions or territory, the pursuit of justice and perhaps to end suffering in the case of euthanasia.
As if it were not bad enough at an individual level, humans took the art of killing each other to the next level, war. At the dawn of time, before histories were recorded, clans and tribes fought each other over hunting grounds, possessions and any other excuse. With the advent of nations came an escalation in war.
By and large, the reasons for war were always both good and evil. A grand irony frequently existed during wars in that often both sides were praying to the same god for protection and victory.
A particularly insidious and despicable chapter in our history was supposedly executed in the name of good but in reality it was especially evil. The Inquisition was founded to root out heresy and to ensure that everyone was unquestionably Christian. This abuse of power by the church led to torture and countless deaths of innocent people. The methods used were particularly gruesome and inhumane. Ultimately, the system was a failure and it probably did more long-term damage to religious faith than any other mechanism.
The discovery of gunpowder provided humans with a set of more efficient ways of killing each other but a certain amount of chivalry remained. Opposing forces met in fields away from civilian populations and systematically shot at each other until one side was wiped out or surrendered.
Industrialisation really gave killing a fantastic boost. Weapon sophistication reached new heights. Everyone had the capacity to kill dozens of people at a time. War became impersonal and chivalry died during the First World War.
The real horror of the Second World War was only fully realised after the Nazi perpetrators were vanquished. Their genocidal ethnic cleansing policies were a new and terrifying aspect of man’s inhumanity to man. The Nazis made the killing of their victims into a slave-driven industry. For the first time in history, insanity had attained national and epic proportions.
Since the Second World War, the human appetite for killing has not been sated. Civil wars have rocked every continent and international wars have been waged with almost no period of global peace