A friend of mine showed me this article about a guy who shot himself 5 times (3 in the head, 2 in the chest) and lived through it. My first reaction was to say that he must have used a .22 cause anything bigger would have made him a stain on the wall.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/new...1?OpenDocument
I figured I'd pass this along to the rest of you.