Method Carbon monoxide megathread

[BPDvic]

It's the same thing with drug overdoses, more likely to die on accident than on purpose. As for the house and charcoal it all depends on the person, I'm probably going to rent an average sized single family house and get 16 lbs of charcoal (which is more than enough) but I'm also going to be producing hydrogen cyanide which is 35 times more lethal than carbon monoxide.

How did you get the cyanide?
And why would you use carbon when you have hydrogen cyanide?

 

[Liebestod]

How did you get the cyanide?
And why would you use carbon when you have hydrogen cyanide?

I'm trying to gatekeep how I'm going to produce the cyanide for now, but I want to use both because they have a synergistic effect that make them even more toxic and lethal in an environment.

 

[BrunoDante]

I'm curious: it's frequently suggested here and elsewhere that using a modern vehicle for CO s'cide in an enclosed space or running a hose from the exhaust to the cabin is ineffective due to catalytic converters removing most of the CO. And yet just some quick research reveals people are still dying from CO emissions from modern vehicles, whether deliberately or by accident.

I always assumed the modern wisdom about catalytic converters was correct and yet it seems to be contradicted by quite a few examples.

 

[bellaisdonewithlife]

Charcoal method seems ineffective. Better to use a tank of "calibration" gas of carbon monoxide like Kevorkian used. You can get tanks with 20% carbon monoxide + 80% nitrogen online. Google... "Portable Carbon Monoxide Calibration Gas"

Wait, hold up. Charcoal is not that effective? So it's more effective to buy a tank of 20% carbon monoxide + 80% nitrogen?