<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Breathing pure nitrogen is deadly but the person will not experience any loss. The lack of oxygen does not trigger any response and that's a killer. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">This is legal I think in some states. MIssissippi considered it and rejected it. I do not know why. I suspect that they wanted the person to suffer. There are lots of those around. Those killed by lack of oxygen do not suffer. Like going to sleep, only it's the Big Sleep. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">If I committed suicide that's the way I'd do it. No mess. (Hemingway used a double barreled shotgun. His daughter found him. I cannot imagine the horror.) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I will not stand extreme and intractable pain. What am I proving to anybody to stay alive? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 5:26 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf Of MB<br>
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Subject: Re: [ExI] libertarians<br>
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IIUC, taking a handful of pills often failed because you didn't die...<br>
instead you hurked them all back up. Or really seriously messed with your<br>
body. It isn't as easy as one might think, apparently.<br>
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There was an organization "Hemlock Society" that had guidelines and meetings<br>
and papers. Dr. K was not part of that. I think their book was "Final<br>
Exit", something like that.<br>
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Dr. K may have administered a shot, like we give animals at the vet's office<br>
when they are put down. I do not know.<br>
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Regards,<br>
MB<br>
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I am kinda surprised it isn't more common for proles to go down to the<br>
welding supply shop, get a bottle of nitrogen, attach a hose, dry cleaner<br>
bag over the head, belt loosely around the bottom to vent away the last of<br>
the oxygen, hose thru the top, turn on the flow, no bad smell of exhaust, no<br>
mess, to travel, no danger to anyone else, low cost, no pain, no gain, adios<br>
amigo.<br>
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Regarding the lengths Tom Hanks went to and failed (thrice) in his<br>
brilliantly acted A Man Called Otto, he tried the most traditional methods,<br>
but not the one that makes the most sense to me.<br>
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Of all the goofy nonsense I have ever posted here in 30 years, this is the<br>
one which causes me the most concern I will deeply regret posting. Stern<br>
order: none a yas go out and start hoofing nitrogen, I MEAN IT. Don't do<br>
it, not even if you are signed up for Alcor. Life is good. Post me<br>
offlist, or view the Hanks movie or both. It is an excellent choice for one<br>
who is at the end of his rope. Hanks is an acting genius. He really gets<br>
Otto exactly right, and Mariana Trevino Ortiz is schmokin hot in that film,<br>
without even a siren role.<br>
<br>
spike<br>
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