Amazon is sued for 'selling suicide kits to teenagers': Parents of Ohio girl, 16, and West Virginia boy, 17, accuse online retail giant of assisting in their deaths by selling sodium nitrate - a fatal food preservative that 'is as deadly as cyanide'

Daily Mail UK ^ | October 10, 2021 | Harriet Alexander

[Beowulf9]

Wow.

[granite]

There are numerous items that you can purchase online that are lethal if ingested, in fact, there are even more such items available at any hardware or feed store. This is yet another thinly veiled First Amendment attack.

[ConservativeInPA]

Suicide is tragic and you have to feel for the families, but this is just going after a deep pocket. It’s not justice. Hopefully it doesn’t lead to chemicals from being banned, restricted, or tracked. There are legitimate uses for sodium nitrate, but that doesn’t matter to people who are afraid of their own shadows and look to government to protect them from just about everything.

[Morgana]

What I’m wondering, and was hoping someone here could give the answer, is what on earth gave them the idea to use that in the first place? Most kids when they try it either use pills or try to hang themselves.

Using Sodium nitrate? This is the first I’ve ever heard of such a thing. This was well thought out and shows they meant to die.

[PreciousLiberty]

“There are numerous items that you can purchase online that are lethal if ingested, in fact, there are even more such items available at any hardware or feed store.”

*Water*, which you can get out of your tap at home, is lethal if ingested in sufficient quantities. It’s also lethal if inhaled in much smaller quantities!

BAN dihydrogen monoxide!!! (sigh)

[ConservativeInPA]

I just did a search. Check Reddit, there’s a bunch of threads on it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Nope...no way. This is yet another case of a slimy lawyers looking for a big,and easy,payday.

[Morgana]

what exactly did you search?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They got the idea from the book that Commizon recommend they buy as well.

Going to buy sodium nitrite we recommend you also buy this book that will tell you how to use it.

A cook book maybe? Nah, a book about how to kill yourself.

[Morgana]

I have a better one, ban monosodium glutamate

[ConservativeInPA]

Sodium nitrate suicide … I use DuckDuckGo

[struggle]

I’m checking out of my senses, buying best defenses
Fired up on free-will, hang up, hang up, hang up

[nwrep]

I checked your search and it’s not there.

[ConservativeInPA]

Correction, I use Brave as my default search engine on my phone … not on my computer at the moment. There’s a bunch of results

[from occupied ga]

It’s a good precursor to nitric acid which is an essential precursor to all sorts of home defense substances.

[Zhang Fei]

$1 worth of table salt killed this young lady:

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2796.2004.01411.x
[A 20-year-old previously healthy woman was diagnosed of suffering of postpartum depression 2 weeks following delivery of her first child. Antidepressive fluoxetine treatment was initiated by her family doctor. Concomitantly, the patient participated, in her family’s advice, in a local ceremony of ‘exorcism’. During this act the patient was ordered to drink large amounts of salty water. Reportedly, the patient drank six glasses of a mixture of 1 kg table salt in a litre of water.

Eleven hours later, the women became lethargic and apathetic and developed a general convulsive episode. On arrival to the emergency department, the patient was deeply unconscious, with a blood pressure of 110/60, respiratory rate of 15, heart rate of 120, and temperature of 36 °C. The estimated Glasgow coma scale score was 5. Breathing was shallow. Pulmonary, cardiac and abdominal examinations were normal. Other than the severely impaired consciousness, neurological examination was unremarkable, with reactive pupils, no evidence of meningeal irritation, normal, intact tonus of all four limbs, and normal, symmetrical reflexes.

Admission serum sodium level was 255 mmol L−1, with identical results noted in three repeated blood examinations. Serum sodium level was also determined by a separate laboratory, yielding similar results. Also noted were mild renal failure (creatinine of 138 μmol L−1), hyperuricaemia (569 μmol L−1) and mildly elevated lactic acid levels (3.19 mmol L−1). Complete blood count and the rest of the biochemistry results were within normal range. TSH level was normal, and blood levels of alcohol, acetaminophen, tricyclic antidepressants and lithium were undetectable. Urinary toxic screen and gastric lavage toxic screen were repeatedly negative. Chest radiography, head CT and lumbar puncture were unremarkable. Blood and urine cultures were taken and were later demonstrated to be sterile.

The patient was intubated and admitted to the ICU. Despite full intensive treatment and aggressive hypotonic fluid resuscitation the patient rapidly deteriorated and died a few hours after arrival. Postmortem examination did not recognize any pathological finding that would explain the patient’s presentation and eventual death, other than fatal hypernatraemia.]

[heartwood]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33074043/ Sodium nitrite is a powerful oxidizing agent that causes hypotension and limits oxygen transport and delivery in the body through the formation of methemoglobin. Clinical manifestations can include cyanosis, hypoxia, altered consciousness, dysrhythmias, and death. The majority of reports on sodium nitrite poisonings have been the result of unintentional exposures. We report a case of an intentional fatal overdose of sodium nitrite. A 17-year-old female reportedly drank approximately one tablespoon of sodium nitrite in a self-harm attempt. The patient was hypotensive and cyanotic upon EMS arrival. The patient decompensated rapidly into a bradycardic arrest during transport despite intubation, push-dose epinephrine, and intravenous fluid resuscitation. In the Emergency Department (ED), she received methylene blue and packed red cells but could not be resuscitated despite a prolonged effort. EMS professionals should consider sodium nitrite toxicity in patients with a suspected overdose who present with a cyanotic appearance, pulse oximetry that remains around 85% despite oxygen, and dark brown blood seen on venipuncture. Early prehospital contact with the Poison Control Center and ED prenotification in poisoned patients is encouraged.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

article: "She lived with her parents and two younger siblings, Daniel and Katherine, and loved playing board games with the family. But when the pandemic hit, she became withdrawn and depressed."

Boo hoo hoo. Toughen up, cupcakes. Read something like the the diaries from the siege of Leningrad, say Tanya Savicheva s diary. Now there was a real lockdown. Or read other wartime diaries like Anne Frank, or Rutka Laskier. Read those and you will never whine again.

Teenage girl in a first world country can't engage in gossip and mindless chitcha with her friends for a few months. Oh the humanity!

[Celtic Conservative]

Yeah, but very few repeat sales.

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