Inert gas storage and purity

[suicideprepper]

I'm what I call a suicide prepper. In case of a nuclear war or climate collapse or anything of that sort, I'd like to have a trustworthy method of painlessly leaving the world before it forcefully kicks me out.

I'm in a country where acquiring a shotgun, which would be my first choice, is extremely difficult. Fentanyl, Nembutal etc are not stable enough for the time window I'm looking at, especially not at the temperatures we're used to reaching here. Sodium Nitrite is good, but the antiemetics needed are can't survive that long (and I'm worried I won't be able to buy antiemetics when the time comes).

I'm left with the Inert Gas method. However, storage of these is complicated. I hear that leaks are essentially inevitable, and that a compressed cylinder will lose its purity over time as a result.

I'd like to know the extent to which that is true and, if it is, I'd like to know how bad an idea it is to try to kill oneself using subpar Helium, Nitrogen or Argon.

Thank you so much,
suicideprepper

 

[outrider567]

I'm what I call a suicide prepper. In case of a nuclear war or climate collapse or anything of that sort, I'd like to have a trustworthy method of painlessly leaving the world before it forcefully kicks me out.

I'm in a country where acquiring a shotgun, which would be my first choice, is extremely difficult. Fentanyl, Nembutal etc are not stable enough for the time window I'm looking at, especially not at the temperatures we're used to reaching here. Sodium Nitrite is good, but the antiemetics needed are can't survive that long (and I'm worried I won't be able to buy antiemetics when the time comes).

I'm left with the Inert Gas method. However, storage of these is complicated. I hear that leaks are essentially inevitable, and that a compressed cylinder will lose its purity over time as a result.

I'd like to know the extent to which that is true and, if it is, I'd like to know how bad an idea it is to try to kill oneself using subpar Helium, Nitrogen or Argon.

Thank you so much,
suicideprepper

There is no loss of purity, 2.5 years after getting my huge Nitrogen Tank, my Oxygen level divebombed to 40 after just 5 or 6 breaths at 25 LPM(10 second delay), but there is some slow leaking from the tank, the PSI dropped from 2200 to 1600 after 2 years, but in the last year, it has stabilized at 1600