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Do you know where I can find a detailed guide for SN or CO please?
Rumi, your icon suggsts that you live in a cold place. If so, you have an easy option.
I've actually considered hypothermia before. Apparently it's peaceful at the end, you feel all fuzzy and stuff.
It's the way I plan to go, if and when my time comes. Alone, in the wilderness somewhere. (You need to ensure that you don't get revived and wake up with frostbite, but provided that doesn't happen it is indeed easy and peaceful.)
Unfortunately I don't live near a place like the one in my pfp. Or else it would be as simple as just getting drunk and going for a hike.
Obviously it would work at very cold temperatures, but hypothermia can set in at temperatures a degree or two above freezing. If it's raining at that temperature, it can set in surprisingly quickly, especially if there is some wind too. (That's why a lot of unsuspecting people die in the outdoors. They under-estimate the danger from weather that is cold but not very cold.) You don't need to travel to the North Pole.
Yeah, when I was considering it as a method I was planning to get drunk and for a swim, apparently that can kill you in under half an hour if its cold enough.
In cold water you can die very quickly. Your strength goes even faster, and you become unable to help yourself. Nearly half a century ago I was in Iceland, and we needed to cross a river. It came straight off an ice cap, and the water was close to freezing point. I went first, with a rope around me for safety as the current was quite fast. I got swept off my feet a few times and got soaked. I thought I was OK and started to make another attempt, but my companions on the bank over-ruled me. They could see that I was in trouble, even though I didn't realize it myself. Then they hauled me out of the river, my strength vanishing rapidly. By the time they got me to the bank I was almost helpless. They put me into a sleeping bag, got the stove out, and made up a hot drink for me. It had taken just a few minutes for me to go from being a healthy,, vigorous young person to someone in real trouble. (Fortunately, the hypothermia hadn't had time to progress very far, and I was back to normal in an hour or so.)
Wow! If it can happen that quickly even when you're dressed for extreme cold (like I imagine you were), then maybe this method has more potential than I thought. I know it was a long time ago, but do you remember how long you were in the water for?
Ten minutes at the most. Possibly less. Yes, we did have warm clothing, but warm clothing works by trapping bubbles of air. (Air doesn;t conduct heat well.) When that air is displaced by water - which does conduct heat well - the clothing might as well not be there.
Would you say that the experience was uncomfortable? It doesn't sound like it was too bad, especially considering you wanted to keep going.
Nobody likes getting cold and wet! But apart from that it wasn't bad. I regarded it as useful experience. And because I had good companions, and had roped up because I knew that the river might be difficult, I was never in any great danger.
I found the PPH on here. It's very helpful.
Carbon monoxide. It's a gas that is released when carbon is burned.
