This is despicable. The drug that Trump and others have talked about is not some fishtank cleaner. The media will kill people; they want to kill people.
At least 95% of all the personal woe in this world is in some way self-induced.
I think these folks went all-out for 100% self-induced personal tribulation.
Maybe they were latter-day members of Heaven’s Gate or the Jonestown People’s Temple cult.
Cyanide would have been both quicker and less painful.