Carbon Monoxide poisoning results

[pinkbluebutch]

I've been looking for a method that's realistic for me for a while now and I have hope that CO will be it for me. I am curious if anyone knows what a body looks like after CO poisoning, as I would rather minimize trauma to others and not leave a desecrated corpse behind.

On a similar yet unrelated note, I wonder if anyone knows of suicide methods that would allow for organs to be donated; I don't want to waste anything, but I fear trying to balance that and a successful suicide increases the risk of being caught and resuscitated to live as a zombie or something along those lines.

I need to look more into the effectiveness of CO poisoning, as well as how to prepare, but that will all come in time.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

I've been looking for a method that's realistic for me for a while now and I have hope that CO will be it for me. I am curious if anyone knows what a body looks like after CO poisoning, as I would rather minimize trauma to others and not leave a desecrated corpse behind.

Afaik your body will look pretty normal, could turn slightly "pink" I don't remember where I read that. There's no physical damage done, it's only lack of oxygen that leads to suffocation while being unconscious already.

On a similar yet unrelated note, I wonder if anyone knows of suicide methods that would allow for organs to be donated; I don't want to waste anything, but I fear trying to balance that and a successful suicide increases the risk of being caught and resuscitated to live as a zombie or something along those lines.

To donate your organs you must be kept alive although being "brain dead". That won't work when you CTB bc they will resuscitate you and you will fail the attempt with a high risk of brain / organ damage. I wouldn't risk that.

 

[pinkbluebutch]

Afaik your body will look pretty normal, could turn slightly "pink" I don't remember where I read that. There's no physical damage done, it's only lack of oxygen that leads to suffocation while being unconscious already.


To donate your organs you must be kept alive although being "brain dead". That won't work when you CTB bc they will resuscitate you and you will fail the attempt with a high risk of brain / organ damage. I wouldn't risk that.

Thanks for the reply! That's what I thought after some reading on case studies of CO suicides/deaths, just reddish/pink hands and whatnot, which I figure can be repaired with mortuary makeup if an open casket is desired.

And as far as organ donation that's too bad, I wish suicide wasn't so stigmatized and so hard to access (at the same time, I know legalization could open up a pandora's box of legal discrimination by governments against 'undesirable' citizens so who knows the best solution) because I think most people here would like their body to go to use after they die if possible.

Anyways, thanks for the reply :-)!

 

[sanitystruggle]

CO leaves a pink and rosy corpse due to the colour of CO bound to haemoglobin:

Spoiler: Post mortem pictures

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/carbon-monoxide-poisoning#:~:text=A%20light%20reddish%20or%20pink,carboxyhemoglobin%20formation%20(Figure%208).

To be eligible as an organ donor you have to die in hospital. Only about one in a hundred deaths is suitable and CTB pretty much rules it out under normal circumstances:

Get the facts

Your funeral plans will not be affected by organ donation. Organs cannot be bought or sold. Get the facts behind common misconceptions around organ donation.

www.organdonation.nhs.uk