"OmManiPadmeOmelet" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:David Cohen said:"OmManiPadmeOmelet" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:"David Cohen" <[email hidden]> wrote:
> "OmManiPadmeOmelet" <[email hidden]> wrote
> > I've always thought that an overdose of K+ would work best,
> > providing
> > you could get it,
>
> That's the professional method, but extremely painful in a conscious
> person.
> It would be very difficult to do it to yourself.
Painful? Really?
Why? I thought that too high of a K+ level just made your heart
stop???
Injecting concentrated potassium chloride into a vein causes extreme pain
if
you're conscious. Very caustic.
Oh. Ok, I was thinking Oral potassium, but I guess that it is not
possible to OD even with prescription potassium?
You could, but, the effects wouldn't be immediate. Or reliably fatal. But
access isn't a problem. KCL is available as a salt substitute in
supermarkets and as a water softener, instead of NaCl. So, you just dissolve
as much as you can in some water, and inject it. Sterility isn't really a
problem, since you're committing suicide.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Then again, the vet uses Phenobarbital.
No. Pentobarbital. Same class, different drug.
I could swear the bottle he took the drug out of said Phenobarb, but my
memory could be faulty. It was a few years ago.
The names are nearly identical, and doctors and nurses have been known to
mix them up. Not me, of course, those other people.
Pentobarb, phenobarb, pentathol...three commonly used drugs in intensive
care medicine, easily mixed up.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:In a related, unrelated, dog fact, most dog foods have traces of
pentobarbital in them, thanks to the use of euthanized animals. Which is
why
I only use one of the handful of super-premium dog foods available in the
US. 'Cause they don't. Among other reasons.
Damn. Is that really true?
I use Purina by my vet's recommendations.
Most vets, like most people doctors, know what little about nutrition that
they learned in school. And, in vet's case, that nutrition education is
bought and paid for by the Hill's pet food company.
Quoted message said:I 'spose I could switch if it'd make a difference in my dog's health,
especially the two elderly ones.
Do what you think is best. I wouldn't feed Purina to my worst enemy's dog.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> > Then there is the "barbecue method"...... CO production anyone?
>
> Simple but effective.
>
> The upstairs tenants over the garage REALLY don't like it, though.
<lol> I can imagine... Especially the stench if the corpse is not
discovered anytime soon.
No, especially the death of all the upstairs tenants. The stench then
only
bothers the next-door neighbors.
Heh, okay, I was under the mistaken impression that CO was heavy and did
not rise? Is that incorrect?
That is incorrect.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:And the paramedics. You know you're in trouble when the INSIDE of the
windows are covered with flies.
Been there, done that.
Quoted message said:Ew. I thought you were a nurse, not a paramedic???
Am, was.
David
