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> I am worried that I will delay that decision and end up in a situation where I lose my faculties to make that decision. I'm concerned about that too. Broadly
by denton-scratch 4y ago
> I am worried that I will delay that decision and end up in a situation where I lose my faculties to make that decision.
I'm concerned about that too. Broadly, the circumstances in which I'd want to get it over with painlessly are circumstances where it's hard to see what I could do about it, like if I'm immobile in a hospital bed. I want a stash of Nembutal in my medicine cabinet, that's the drug recommended by Exit International; but I can't get it. You sometimes see sellers offering it on dark markets at $600 for 10g, but typically they have zero trades and zero reputation.
- Eisenstein 4y agoGo to a big city and get a bindle of heroin. Or fentanyl on the dark markets.
- denton-scratch 4y agoAFAIK, most "opiate deaths" are the result of vomiting while asleep.
- Eisenstein 4y agoYou are incorrect. Opiates slow your respiration and you stop breathing. You are probably thinking of alcohol deaths.
- astura 4y agoNo, You're thinking of alcohol deaths. Opiates deaths are caused by opiates slowing your breathing and eventually stopping it.
- denton-scratch 4y agoWell, anecdote: It's usually said that Jimi Hendrix died of a heroin overdose. I believe the truth is that he died from inhaling vomit.
- astura 4y agoJimi Hendrix neither had alcohol or heroin when he died. He aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Specifically, large doses of the sleeping pill Vesparax. Opioids kill by slowing breathing, full stop. The medical term is "Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression." Narcan very rapidly reverses this, which is how it saves lives.