Online Forums Promoting Suicide By Hydrogen Sulfide Gas
Online forums are leading more Japanese people to commit suicide with hydrogen sulfide gas, a method that can cause harm to innocent bystanders:
Suicides attributed to inhaling hydrogen sulfide gas created by mixing a type of detergent with bath powder have increased in recent months, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The method, which has been introduced via Web sites, has been linked to at least 10 suicide cases this year, according to sources.
Various so-called suicide bulletin boards have introduced the method of suicide instead of using briquette charcoal, a method that once prevailed.
Medical experts have warned of the unintended dangers of the new method.
One expert said: “This method is very dangerous because it could involve innocent people. People could survive exposure to the gas and suffer terrible aftereffects.”
In mid-February, a female company employee living on the third floor of a condominium building in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, woke with a headache and noticed a strong sulfurous smell. She took a medicine for her headache, but it did not go away, and she noticed the smell was becoming stronger.
The woman tracked the source of the smell to a room on the first floor, where she found a man lying on the floor of a closed room. She reported seeing several cases of detergent on the floor, and yellow smoke rising from a pot.
Firefighters arrived at the site soon after and they told the woman to seek treatment for herself and her two children. The three received treatment at a hospital, and the woman was told by a doctor that her headache had been caused by the hydrogen sulfide gas.
The man escaped death and later visited the woman to apologize. He told the woman that he had tried to kill himself after learning of the method online.
Update [April 25]: Hydrogen sulfide gas suicides are becoming an even greater problem, with daily news reports of new suicides by gas. Last night’s news broadcast contained the following chart, which shows the number of people who committed suicide by gas in April:
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Wasn’t there a mother-son death last month where they said they found a lot of chemicals in the room, and didn’t know if it was a suicide or just an experiment gone wrong?
Perhaps this was the cause, kid kills himself, mother goes to investigate the smell and gets overcome by the fumes?
http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/news/430929
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thanks for sharing this, now i know a cheap and easy way to off myself soon.
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Not a good idea. I inhaled a bit of that during an undergrad chem lab. Ugh.
The problem is, that low concentrations stink like hell, but high (deadly) concentrations don’t smell at all. That increases the dangers for bystanders. This gas was used for warfare in WWI.
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Great, now people can somehow do an easy suicide and still be able to harm others. Gosh, what a world.
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What happened to the good-old stab-in-the-back-of-the-head-with-a-chopstick?
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it’s hard to get the necessary leverage by yourself.
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Just when will this suicide cult crap ever end?
The people who post this kind of information onto the internet should be held accountable for something, I think.
I thought that the Japanese government was trying to shut down websites that provide this kind of information. If I remember correctly, when Shinzo Abe was PM, he was going to crack down on this kind of stuff. Yes, I know it’s difficult when information on how to kill yourself is hosted on another computer in another country.
This suicide cults won’t go away until Japanese society fundamentally changes. There is nothing romantic about killing yourself. I don’t care how many times you’ve seen “Chuusingura 1/47″. It just isn’t worth it.
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before any of you depressed japanese girls go off yourself,dont do it!!,you can come over to california and hang out with me. wacking yourself hurts.
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Why would there be Yellow gas? Hydrogen Sulfide has is colorless. Perhaps he survived becuase he didn’t mix the right ingredients and made a different gas?
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That gas is not yellow, it is colour less. Mix 50/50 car battery acid (or any strong acid) with 40% acid and 60% water, then add a product such as a pesticide with about the same: 30+% calcium polysulfides, or pure 97% dilutable lime sulfer. Then they mix it to match the amount of acid in the strong acid product they use, s it’s 50/50.
They use 2 litres of each in a bathroom and they are away. When you pour the limesulfer into the acid it foams and starts to stink like hell. They inhale and inhale for a few seconds. the third breath they don’t smell the stink anymore…..and within 60 seconds they collopse and are braindead, if no help arrives they die in minutes!
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