# Suicide by Cyanide Pill (Don't Need Answer Fast)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-cyanide-pill-dont-need-answer-fast/636468>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 2, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-cyanide-pill-dont-need-answer-fast/636468 "2012-10-02T13:00:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-cyanide-pill-dont-need-answer-fast/636468/43 "2017-04-26T00:39:19Z")

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> [@si\_blakely](#):
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> After that incident, the U-2 pilots were issued a “Silver Dollar” that contained a needle loaded with [shellfish toxin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxitoxin) - one scratch was supposed to be sufficiently lethal.

That seems like a slower and more stressful way to die (paralysis leading to suffocation) than cyanide poisoning, though. Unless scratching yourself with a dose of saxitoxin makes it work differently than people who get paralytic shellfish poisoning from eating it. :eek:

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-cyanide-pill-dont-need-answer-fast/636468/44 "2017-04-26T00:45:07Z")

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> [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> The internet that over 99% of us use regularly is just the tip of the iceberg. There is the so called ‘dark net’ where places exist that you DO NOT want to go to.

Well you SAY that, but now I want to go.

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