My father got his hands on the drug used for assisted suicide. He donated money to a group campaigning to legalize the practice. Undoubtedly, he found a shady practitioner who did him a favor”favor.” He never used it. But it was there in case of cancer or similar.
I managed to buy some sodium nitrite on Amazon a few months ago. They stopped selling it like two years ago after a bunch of teenagers used it to die but it seems they were allowing vendors back on as long as they could only sell to business accounts, but there was a delay of a few days between it being listed and then restricted to business accounts and in the meantime I was able to snag some. I hope I'll never be forced to use it but it's nice to know that whatever happens I get to be the one in control now. ME. The world can find another punching bag. I have the POWER to extinguish my life whenever I want. Do you?
Any drug can be a leþal OD if you take enough of it, even over ð counter stuff.
Ðere's even an LD50 for water if you can believe it.
Huh, that's the first time I've seen a thorn character on Lemmy
I'm also partial to ð, ſ, æ, ᵫ, œ, and ƿ
I only noticed it with op
I remember the story about the woman who won a water drinking contest for some morning radio show and died because she drank too much water. I don’t remember the exact terminology.
Hyponatraemia. As Chubby Emu might put it (and indeed might have), "hypo" meaning low or below, "natrio" meaning sodium and "(h)aemia" meaning blood. Low sodium in the blood. You know those electrolytes they always talk about being good for you? Sodium is one of those.
Basically diluted herself to death.
Good. Let's keep it that way.
Same way they get guns. Bought or stole them. Good on you for hanging out there. Suicide is generally very impulsive so any interruption to the process can put it off a little longer until hopefully the person finds the help that works for them.
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