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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: painless suicide
Message-ID: <194@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 11:05:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 11:05:14 1986
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If I ever decide to kill myself (which I don't see as an option
at this point--I don't think it solves anything, and I have about
500 books I haven't read yet :-), I have a method picked out.

From the reports I've read, the effects of cobra venom are quite
pleasant.  Similar to cocaine.  This is from articles by people
who were bitten and survived.  It can be very fast--a few minutes
to unconsciousness and 1/2 hour or so to death.

Of course, you have to find a cobra.  And you have to get bitten
well.  (Cobras have been known to botch the job--they don't have
real fangs, they sort of grab and gnaw.  It takes time for them
to get enough poison in.  They often miss.  Rattlesnakes
are more efficient, but not poisonous enough for the suicide squad.)  
And if it doesn't kill you, you will probably wind up with nasty 
gangrene--as it destroys the blood vessels.  And you have a cobra
running around loose to confront the EMTs or the next owner of
your house.

But, hell, nothing's perfect.   Think I'll live and enjoy.   Hope
everyone out there does, too.  
-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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