[WP] You have the ability to reverse time by 6 hours whenever you're about to die. You're currently on a 10 hour flight on a plane that's about to crash.

Once you're in the terminal, you can go home and use your gun to kill yourself. Unless you're super-skilled or super-lucky, a stab with a plastic knife is going to give you a slow, painful death. A bullet to the brain is instantaneous and painless, in my experience (joke).

If you aren't a gun owner, then you need to look up other sure, painless ways to kill yourself. If you have a car, then $20 at the hardware will buy you dryer hose and duct tape so you can route carbon monoxide into the car's interior. Do NOT use the garage, if there is anyone living above it; you'll kill them too.

You could explore the possibility of changing the future, once you're back in the terminal. Call in a bomb threat, and the flight will be delayed, which could prevent the crash if the crash weather-related or otherwise time-sensitive. Save a few hundred lives!

Another consideration is alternate time streams. Do you drop back six hours then start a new time stream -- so the time stream in which you killed yourself continues with you as a dead guy? Since you can't tell whether the old time stream continues, you should assume so -- and make a point of minimizing the grief endured by the people who love you. Call your parents, thank them for being such great parents, tell them you love them and give them a chance to tell you the same. If you have children, write a note that makes it super-clear that your death is not their fault, that there's nothing they did that led to your suicide.

On second thought, if you are leaving people behind who will mourn you, the loving considerate thing to do is to kill yourself in a way that looks like a complete accident instead of suicide. Overdose on heroin: you'll die a pleasant death, and possibly increase the probability of your kids staying away from illegal drugs.

Be sure to leave a valid will somewhere it will be found, along with a list of things like bank deposit boxes and money-related accounts and passwords.

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