"Detergent Death" / Help

[It'sNotLookingGood]

Hi, this community is really encouraging and I'm happy to have found it very recently :)

In The Peaceful Pill Handbook", "detergent death", or hydrogen sulfide, is stated to cause "rapid death", be an incredibly reliable method of suicide (levels above 1% equating to "certain death"), and be "easily produced using readily active ingredients". Despite this, it is strongly discouraged in the book, and as a result, barely covered. Can some people please help explain why it is so heavily discouraged, and discarded as a method?

Is it simply the risk this method can pose to other people? Surely, given you take some care, the risk can be minimalised greatly. For example, if I were to simply buy a tent, go somewhere quiet and isolated, like a field, and leave a big loud sign to warn those who find me of the toxic gas inside the tent, where is the risk? Has it not been minimalised to so great an extent, that it is largely negligible?

Therefore I am lead to believe it perhaps a particularly painful death? The book does rate it a 3/10 for peacefulness (10/10 being a peaceful death), but why? Is it genuinely terribly painful, and how so if "concentrations of over 0.1%(1000ppm) will lead to immeadiate loss of consciousness and rapid death"?

Is it then discarded as a """peaceful""" method, just because of the stench, a stench that you yourself won't even smell as levels of H₂S rise?

I feel genuinely uninformed on what the drawbacks are here, and would like to have them clarified by someone more knowledgeable. Why is this an undesirable, unpeaceful way to die?Thank you :)

 

[UpandDownPrincess]

Okay, here we go again.

1. Even with signs, the danger to first responders and whoever finds you is very real. From the CDC (keep in mind, this is only over 3 years):

Five of the nine states participating in NTSIP reported a total of 22 chemical suicide
incidents or attempted suicides during 2011-2013. These states reported a total of 43 victims: 15
suicide victims who died, seven people who attempted suicide but survived, eight responders, and
four employees working at a coroner's office; the remainder were members of the general public.
None of the injured responders reported receiving HazMat technician-level training, and none had
documented appropriate personal protective equipment.

If you'd like to read the whole paper, google "chemical suicide cdc stacks."

2. Your corpse will be hazmat. This can definitely impact your final wishes. Wherever you choose to do this, you will leave poison behind. If you use a car, your car will be totaled and may not be covered by insurance.

3. You will not leave a pretty corpse. Your skin, and especially the areas around your nose and mouth, will turn yellow and gray.

4. If the chemical composition isn't quite right, you may make hydrogen cyanide, which is guaranteed to cause a horrible death.

5. If you are not knocked out instantly, you will suffocate and choke on a corrosive, toxic plume. It will burn your mucous membranes and eyes.

I'm sure I'm forgetting something. This was my method of choice years ago, but I was talked out of it for good reasons. It's just not worth the risk.

 

[It'sNotLookingGood]

Thank you for the response, all things which I will consider! I'm just trying to gain a more sophisticated knowledge of the ways in which one can end their life, you'll be glad to know this is not what I consider my method of choice atm :)