bunnii

bunnii

just a little guy
Feb 16, 2023
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Recently, my family bought a soda stream machine. To go with it, obviously, they also bought small cylinders of CO2 to carbonate the water with. I was wondering if there was any possibility of them having enough CO2 in them to kill me- I've heard of some sort of manual respirator set up for this method, but I can't find lots of info or diagrams about it. I was hoping to go in a closed space (like a tent) and just pop them open but I have doubts about there being enough in the can do actually fill the tent. Any info (even telling me this won't work) is much appreciated!
 
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kernel_panic

Feb 11, 2023
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There have been some suicide cases involving dry ice (1 kg of it sublimates to around 541 l of CO2​ gas).

According to this article, loss of consciousness when breathing in a high concentration of CO2​ occurs very rapidly.

Your method could work if you can achieve a high enough concentration of CO2​ in the air and maintain it until death. I doubt your cylinders would be enough for that though.
 
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Unreliable.
CO₂ triggers the Hypercapnic Alarm Response which causes unbearable torture and panic.

The way to go is Nitrogen with SCBA/EEBD/ExitBag.
 
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