Could taking high doses of muscle relaxants be the right way to end your life?

[Blueth]

Today I read a news story that happened in the past.

A nurse anesthetist committed suicide by injecting herself with a large dose of muscle relaxants. This reportedly gave her a painless death.

Does anyone know anything about muscle relaxants?

How much dose do you think would be needed for the same result?

 

[Little_Suzy]

Link the news story, please!

 

[willitpass]

The cause of death would be suffocation as your diaphragm paralyzes and you can no longer breath. I wouldn't exactly call that painless. How long it would take between paralysis and unconsciousness is hard to say, but I wouldnt say it is 100% painless, far from it. Muscle relaxers are not pain relievers (though they can relieve pain in people with muscle spasms, irrelevant to this purpose), so you would still feel everything up until your body runs out of oxygen.

 

[Ironweed]

Surprising. Usually they don't put cause of death (as in method) when it is suicide in any kind of news story.

Muh Werther Effect and all that crap.

 

[Blueth]

Link the news story, please!

It was news from a foreign country. I don't know if offering links is prohibited. That's why I sent it privately.

 

[returntothevoid]

Wouldn't you shit yourself a bunch if you did that

 

[willitpass]

Wouldn't you shit yourself a bunch if you did that

Every person becomes incontinent after death, nothing you can do to stop it, it's just a fact of life and death.

 

[Blueth]

Surprising. Usually they don't put cause of death (as in method) when it is suicide in any kind of news story.

Muh Werther Effect and all that crap.

I'm not sure, just the information in the news was like this. It was stated in the news that the person who provided the information was a colleague of the dead woman.

The relevant part of the news is translated into English.

Nurse's Friend:
"Her injected an overdose of the drug. This medicine has the ability to stop breathing. Her must have died within minutes because her took too much. It's a painless, very quick and sure way to die. "There was no chance of escape," her said.

The cause of death would be suffocation as your diaphragm paralyzes and you can no longer breath. I wouldn't exactly call that painless. How long it would take between paralysis and unconsciousness is hard to say, but I wouldnt say it is 100% painless, far from it. Muscle relaxers are not pain relievers (though they can relieve pain in people with muscle spasms, irrelevant to this purpose), so you would still feel everything up until your body runs out of oxygen.

When used alone, it is possible to feel the pain of choking. But from what I saw, there was talk of a mixture.

It seems quite possible that a nurse anesthetist may have used something else to induce unconsciousness. At this stage, I think she's lucky.

It's easy to reach the end for someone who has access to everything her wants.

I don't know if knockout spray or ether will work to make me unconscious. But in such a case, these would be the only things I could reach.

 

[Sunset Limited]

A nurse anesthetist knows what a muscle relaxant is and would never use it as a single drug for CTB. They probably used it together with propofol. First injected a muscle relaxant (possibly rocuronium) and then propofol. Propofol and rocuronium are already the two main drugs in Canada's euthanasia protocol. It offers the same standard of euthanasia as N.