[rottndog]

I saw a show about the Hemlock Society and suicide kits...a couple of helium bottles from a party store and a plastic bag for a hood. Less than $100 IIRC.

A couple of deep breaths in the hood brings unconsciousness within a minute. Death from asphyxiation within 10 minutes.

[sharkhawk]

I saw a show about the Hemlock Society and suicide kits...a couple of helium bottles from a party store and a plastic bag for a hood. Less than $100 IIRC.
A couple of deep breaths in the hood brings unconsciousness within a minute. Death from asphyxiation within 10 minutes.

Why don't just use the drugs that the Dutch use for their supposedly humane doctor assisted "suicides"?

[P.O.E.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag]

The “Exit Bag” was described as a large plastic bag with an adjustable velcro strip around the neck area.[8] Different models of the “Exit Bag” were described in Hemlock publications, and the use of helium was specified.[8] Dr. Philip Nitschke has stated that nitrogen has a lower risk of an adverse reaction by the body, but did not specify with regard to what other gas. Nitrogen has been advocated as a replacement for helium not because of reactions to helium, but because, due to a “temporary restriction on the availability of disposable helium in Australia (and New Zealand), helium has been difficult to procure.”[

Cases using suicide bags and gases other than noble gases are recorded, such as a propane-butane mixture,[25] and methane (natural gas).[26]

[NorthMountain]

I’m sure that’s true, but my point still stands. The required amount of dry nitrogen will cost less than the required amount of dry helium. AND ... I hate wasting valuable helium on some murdering scumbag.