Help Convulsions in bathtub due to N2O - concern or not?

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If I position myself such that I am kneeling with my face down when I lose consciousness, will that be sufficient to prevent flipping over?

What does the literature (including case studies) on pure N2O inhalation suggest about this? Should one be concerned about the potential for these convulsions to cause attempt failure?

 

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If I position myself such that I am kneeling with my face down when I lose consciousness, will that be sufficient to prevent flipping over?

What does the literature (including case studies) on pure N2O inhalation suggest about this? Should one be concerned about the potential for these convulsions to cause attempt failure?

I plan to use similar method, but will use N20 at the river, since I don't have access to bathtub

How reliable is this concept in general?

In regards to inhaling gas to pass out in front of some water, then once you fall and sink into the water immediately, you will just drown peacefully and not wake up again, due to lack of new oxygen being inhaled?

Because I'm thinking if it was indeed so simple and reliable, how come this method isn't more popular and common

 

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How reliable is this concept in general?

Theoretically, it is reliable. The only risks are as follows:
a) resurfacing due to not weighing oneself down sufficiently or weights becoming detached
b) someone seeing you before you are submerged
c) regaining consciousness underwater (e.g., if there is laryngospasm) and somehow being lucid enough to resurface before passing out again
d) convulsions causing one to flip over (applicable only in shallow water)

The way I see it, it's a tradeoff because doing it in a lake one has to contend with a, b, and c, and doing it in a bathtub one has to contend with c and d.

In regards to inhaling gas to pass out in front of some water, then once you fall and sink into the water immediately, you will just drown peacefully and not wake up again, due to lack of new oxygen being inhaled?

If I were doing it in a lake (as I still might), I would probably inhale it until I felt dizzy, then submerge my head. Most likely one would not regain consciousness, but because of the vasodilatory response and sources of variance between individuals such as lung capacity, it's possible that consciousness could be regained briefly. That being said, obviously it would occur relatively soon after LOC, making (IMO) permanent organ damage unlikely.

Because I'm thinking if it was indeed so simple and reliable, how come this method isn't more popular and common

I doubt that's the best heuristic because people use all sorts of unreliable methods and forego more reliable ones. I think it's simply not well known.

 

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Theoretically, it is reliable. The only risks are as follows:
a) resurfacing due to not weighing oneself down
b) someone seeing you before you are submerged
c) regaining consciousness underwater and somehow being lucid enough to resurface before passing out again
d) convulsions causing one to flip over (applicable only in shallow water)

The way I see it, it's a tradeoff because doing it in a lake one has to contend with a, b, and c, and doing it in a bathtub one has to contend with c and d.

If I were doing it in a lake (as I still might), I would probably inhale it until I felt dizzy, then submerge my head. Most likely one would not regain consciousness, but because of the vasodilatory response and sources of variance between individuals such as lung capacity, it's possible that consciousness could be regained briefly. That being said, obviously it would occur relatively soon after LOC, making (IMO) permanent organ damage unlikely.

I doubt that's the best heuristic because people use all sorts of unreliable methods and forego more reliable ones. I think it's simply not well known.

I see. What does LOC mean? Lose consciousness?

 

[Eudaimonic]

I see. What does LOC mean? Lose consciousness?

loss of consciousness

 

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