96 Year old WW2 Vet strangles Dementia-stricken Wife who pleaded with him to end her life - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;52337375]If you intend on killing yourself for medical reasons, the best method tends to be helium.[/QUOTE] I know it's a controlled substance, but what about opioids? Kinda just drifting off to sleep in a really numb way seems basically ideal. Whereas suffocation with inert gas seems to me to basically just be drowning without water.

[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52341616]I know it's a controlled substance, but what about opioids? Kinda just drifting off to sleep in a really numb way seems basically ideal. Whereas suffocation with inert gas seems to me to basically just be drowning without water.[/QUOTE] The reason suffocating is normally painful is because of co2 poisoning. Inert gas will just cause you to drift off to sleep.

[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52341616]I know it's a controlled substance, but what about opioids? Kinda just drifting off to sleep in a really numb way seems basically ideal. Whereas suffocation with inert gas seems to me to basically just be drowning without water.[/QUOTE] Inert gases just cause asphyxiation, not suffocation. Your blood oxygen levels drop, you pass out within a minute and then just die without feeling anything. That and the legality of gases are why they're the most recommended method of home suicide, we even have a "brewing" company here that sells nitrogen cylinders with everything you need to kill yourself (but advertised as for home brewing to skirt the assisting suicide laws).

[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52341616]I know it's a controlled substance, but what about opioids? Kinda just drifting off to sleep in a really numb way seems basically ideal. Whereas suffocation with inert gas seems to me to basically just be drowning without water.[/QUOTE] I know people have already mentioned it in the thread, but pills are surprisingly unpredictable with overdosing, intentional or otherwise. Opiates especially can be really volatile. I had a friend accidentally overdose on Codeine and she was seizing and vomitting profusely. And the problem is, if you vomit up some of the pills you might end up below the LD50 and just have irreparable liver damage

Its weird that we dont allow for assisted suicide but we allow for life support termination agreements. Its essentially the same thing ethically