Comments on: Physicist, 90, brewed cyanide for own death pact http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/01/25/physicist-90-brewed-cyanide-for-own-death-pact/ Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:27:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Imperator http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2010/01/25/physicist-90-brewed-cyanide-for-own-death-pact/comment-page-1/#comment-11244 Imperator Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:48:17 +0000 http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/?p=677#comment-11244 but how painful or painless is cyanide? does it depend on its dosage and purity? there are laboratory & scientific supplies companies that sell 98% pure lab grade sodium or potassium cyanide - I assume these would be more potent than home made cyanide? ANSWER: I deal with cyanide as a method of self-deliverance from terminal illness in Chapter 5 of "Final Exit". The pros and cons of this substance cannot be dealt with in a blog. How it could be taken is dealt with in the book. Don't ask me where to get cyanide because I don't know. It is not a drug of choice in euthanasia. Derek H 10.18.11 but how painful or painless is cyanide?
does it depend on its dosage and purity?
there are laboratory & scientific supplies companies that sell 98% pure lab grade sodium or potassium cyanide – I assume these would be more potent than home made cyanide?

ANSWER: I deal with cyanide as a method of self-deliverance from terminal illness in Chapter 5 of “Final Exit”. The pros and cons of this substance cannot be dealt with in a blog. How it could be taken is dealt with in the book. Don’t ask me where to get cyanide because I don’t know. It is not a drug of choice in euthanasia. Derek H 10.18.11

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