EFFORTPOST Chemical Suicide: A Deep Analysis

In today's (hopefully effort) post I will be going into the world of chemical suicide. Remember, this is not met to be used as a guide.

Painkillers

Suicide through painkillers is when someone were to swallow a bunch of painkillers at once, or mix it with other painkillers intentionally. It is hard to link the same effects to every painkiller out there, so instead I will list off what happens with most painkilling suicides. As soon as the painkillers enter your body, you will already have trouble breathing, and this is only the beginning. After this takes effect, your stomach will start bleeding internally, and purfusely too, after this multiple organs will slowly (and painfully) die off as you try to survive. There a couple reasons you may die from overdosing on painkillers, but the most frequent causes are from internal bleeding, a complete stop in breathing, and organ failure.

Pesticide Suicide

A pesticide poisoning occurs when pesticides, chemicals intended to control a pest, affect non-target organisms such as humans. People take advantage of this, and that leads up to nearly 30% of all suicides. Right now in the U.S, it is very rare though, only accounting for 12 suicides a year. Through the organochlorine pesticides, like DDT, aldrin, and dieldrin accumulate in your fatty tissues. As this happens, you get pesticide poisoning. This already puts you at risk of long term neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and dementia. Cancer and kidney failure also starts to come into play during all of this. As these toxic chemicals cause onsets to your nerve cells, the body starts to shut down and you die.

Share of suicide deaths from pesticide poisoning:

Carbon Monoxide

Carbon Monoxide (CO) is a colorless and odorless gas. As you are exposed, you may feel confused, lost, dizzy, and chest pains. After long term exposure, you may experience loss of consciousness, arrhythmias, seizures, or death. Most death comes from hypoxia. Hypoxia is when you are deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level. Survivors ussualy experience memory loss.

Helium

Helium is a colorless and odorless inert gas similar to Carbon Monoxide and Nitrogen. Also similar to these 2, you die for the same reason. As your body tries to find oxygen, it can't. There is nothing but helium, as it digs for oxygen. You start to suffocate and you die from this lack of oxygen. You don't really feel like you're suffocating, unless Co2 is present. The more Co2 = the stronger feeling of suffocation. If you want an entire post dedicated to helium suicide, check this post

Photo of Helium Suicide:

Acid

No I am not talking about LSD, I'm talking about sulfuric acid. I don't know if acid is really a chemical but I know it's intriguing and I want to add it. Anyway, once the victim has drank the sulfuric acid, immediate burning and sharp pain is present in the mouth. This then moves down to the throat, where a higher hole is created by the acid. The rest of the acid moves its way down to the stomach and causes extremely deadly amounts of internal bleeding. The victim dies from having the hole in their throat, or the acid melting through other key parts of the body needed to survive

Other Chemicals/Methods

This last section is gonna go into chemicals that are too short for a full section about them, so I will be making one big section out of them.

Suicide Bag: A suicide bag, also known as an exit bag or hood is a device consisting of a plastic bag with a drawcord used to die by suicide through inert gas asphyxiation. This inert gas is lighter than air, like helium, nitrogen, or CO.

Bleach: as you drink excessive bleach, you start to vomit purfusely, have a fatally low amount of blood pressure, and acute liver failure. If you want to see the affects, check this video out

Gas Oven Suicide: People commit suicide through their gas oven because of the chemicals it produces, like Carbon Monoxide.

Suicide Pill: This could be in the Painkiller section, but it contains more. A suicide pill can contain cyanide, fentanyl, or any other lethal substance than can fit in a pill.

Outro

This is weko997 signing off, hope you enjoyed the post. I tryed using other knowledge aside from my own background knowledge like my last effort post, so I hope this is better. This took hours to do so I hope it's an effort post.

Special thanks to @blepp for a couple chemical ideas

Scources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Methods

https://Google.com

https://Safari.com

If any of these claims are inaccurate, dm me

And as always, If you or a friend feel you may be in danger of hurting yourself, please click the link below, or find a trusted friend to talk to. There is help. You're not alone

https://988lifeline.org/

Or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.