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- Dec 29, 2024
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I have often wondered why it isn't used more often. Will you please explain or point me in the direction to understand what you mean by the vegetable risk?Quick and peaceful, but takes a decent bit of setup and is very easy to mess up. Also tough for many people to acquire/hide canisters, which is why it's not more frequently used. And the nonzero chance of ending up as a vegetable if oxygen gets re-introduced at the wrong time.
Other than that, most peaceful method that is generally available.
Method works by replacing oxygen with inert gas such as nitrogen or argon.I have often wondered why it isn't used more often. Will you please explain or point me in the direction to understand what you mean by the vegetable risk?
Thank you for explaining. Truly. Isn't this easily remedied by using a scuba sort of mask instead? These masks are created for rather extreme underwater conditions, right?Method works by replacing oxygen with inert gas such as nitrogen or argon.
No carbon dioxide is produced when you breath these in, so no feeling of suffocation.
You pass out from lack of oxygen and then your brain and body start to shut down from the same.
The lack of oxygen causes involuntary muscle movements while unconscious, which are usually mild, but can sometimes cause the bag to slip off one's head. Why some people strap themselves down.
It take a bit for lack of oxygen to kill you. If the bag comes off at some point, you'll start breathing again, but may have significant brain damage, leaving you a vegetable.
For masks in general, the issues I've seen are finding a mask, potential cost, most masks require some kind of modification to work with inert gases, and that you cannot pre fill a mask like an exit bag.Thank you for explaining. Truly. Isn't this easily remedied by using a scuba sort of mask instead? These masks are created for rather extreme underwater conditions, right?
You can purge the mask from the regulator to get rid of the oxygenFor masks in general, the issues I've seen are finding a mask, potential cost, most masks require some kind of modification to work with inert gases, and that you cannot pre fill a mask like an exit bag.
Would suggest reading the above megathreads and the PPH sections on inert gases. They're more detailed than my mental recollections.
Not the issue mentionedYou can purge the mask from the regulator to get rid of the oxygen