I recall seeing a documentary years ago on serial killer Leonard Lake. He was taken into custody for theft and was in a police interview room that had a camera rolling. He took the cyanide pill and collapsed within a minute or so & started having convulsions. He was dead within a few minutes.
The spam post is gone. I guess it was a good product after all.
Regards,
Shodan
Can you really trust someone who gives a great product review for a suicide pill? “Works as advertised,” my ass.
They should have left the post. Shilling for an online pharmacy in a cyanide pill thread? Hilarious.
Perhaps she was trying to commit suicide by mod.
Regards,
Shodan
That was all they had time to write.
Does cyanide work on zombies?
Maybe they were dictating.
Four years late answer to this question: unless stored in a sealed bottle, cyanide will slowly react with water/carbon dioxide from the air, forming volatile HCN + carbonate.
What I recall (from films) is that those evil Nazi spies somehow had the cyanide stored in a false tooth so they only had to bite down hard (after capture) and… goodbye. No one has mentioned this so far in the thread, Is that because it’s a Hollywood thing? I mean, how could the person eat and chew food if one of his molars was filled with cyanide?
SFAIK the false tooth thing is not true. The Nazis distributed cyanide capsules which were glass, coated with rubber to minimise the likelihood of accidental breakage. You carried this in a pill-box about your person, only putting it in your mouth when you wanted to commit suicide immediately, or when you expected that you would want to commit suicide presently, and that you might not at that time be in a position to put the pill in your mouth.
Then wouldn’t it have said “Works as adveraaargh…”
Somehow obtained ONE cyanide pill. Instead, she was very ill for a very long time and is still struggling to survive. I asked where she obtained it, and she would not tell me other than to say “online in the darknet”. Okay, call me dumb, but what is the “dark net”? I’ve heard that mentioned on cop shows but does it really exist outside of the movie industry? I want to help her, I am a trauma therapist, but also know that if she doesn’t want help, nothing will work. My question is where does one get that “one powerful pill” and how strong (mg) does it have to be? I think she said hers was 50mg. How did she buy it online without getting caught in the mail (customs) or with the Feds somewhere along the line? I ask because I have no doubt she’ll try doing it again and I’d like to help her not take it until we have exhausted all possible help options. Thanks! 
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. Perhaps you have heard of The Silk Road. Things like Silk Road and whatever child porn and death video sites there are on the ‘dark net’ won’t be found with Google. If youtube comments make you worry about humanity, then do not go looking for the deep web.
ETA: Shops like Silk Road, and presumably others can and will provide all sorts of illegal goods and or services. As far as I know the only accepted form of currency is Bitcoin. So bottom line, yes it is possible to get suicide pills, or marijuana or heroin or pure MDMA over the internet.
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Please note that we do not permit discussions that encourage illegal activities, as is spelled out in the Registration Agreement that you agreed to when you registered here:
That doesn’t mean that the topic is completely off-limits though.
Note to all - let’s keep the discussion on the legal side of things. You are free to discuss what the dark web is, what the effects of cyanide are on the human body, etc. but let’s not have any “how-to” type info. Do not discuss exact dosages required for suicide, and do not give details on how to obtain illegal drugs or substances used for suicide or other illegal activities. Do not provide information about how to avoid getting caught doing illegal things. Also, do not link to any sites providing anything illegal.
The “dark web” is a bunch of (mostly nefarious) web sites which can only be accessed using special software (Tor, I2P, etc) which handles decryption, anonymization and other protocols to hide the activity of the websites and the people who use them.
Although the terms are sometimes confused, the “deep web” on the other hand is simply all web sites which are not indexed by google and other search engines. For example, any web site that you need to log in to in order to access, like most Facebook pages, is part of the deep web.
THANK YOU - that was very helpful; I am just worried about my client. She is new to me but, as a therapist, I also know I cannot be more invested in someone’s life than they are.
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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. Perhaps you have heard of The Silk Road. Things like Silk Road and whatever child porn and death video sites there are on the ‘dark net’ won’t be found with Google. If youtube comments make you worry about humanity, then do not go looking for the deep web.
ETA: Shops like Silk Road, and presumably others can and will provide all sorts of illegal goods and or services. As far as I know the only accepted form of currency is Bitcoin. So bottom line, yes it is possible to get suicide pills, or marijuana or heroin or pure MDMA over the internet.[/QUOTE
THANK YOU - that was very helpful; I am just worried about my client. She is new to me but, as a therapist, I also know I cannot be more invested in someone’s life than they are.
Appreciate your time Ike_Witt, Engineer_Comp_Geek, and MarkN+
One of the former SR-71 (ur maybe U-2, I forget) spy plane pilots that went on to write books mentioned that one time he was having some candy for a snack on the way home from a mission, and accidentally pulled out his cyanide pill and only realized just before popping it in his mouth. :eek: They stopped issuing the pills shortly after, I guess figuring the pilot would die in the process of being shot down and/or didn’t know enough to be all that useful if captured. (The pressurized “spacesuit” had a grommet on the front of the helmet so they could eat Good & Plentys and the like or stick in a straw for a sip of water; another of the pilots once poked himself in the eye with the straw and almost crashed the plane).
After that incident, the U-2 pilots were issued a “Silver Dollar” that contained a needle loaded with shellfish toxin - one scratch was supposed to be sufficiently lethal.