Do people actually croak from eating random mushrooms oit of the ground?

[HelpDoesNotExist]

Not the drug kind, the fungus that grows in woods and grass and stuff. Heard rumors about people eating them trying to get high and supposedly not surviving. Anyone know anything?

 

[findingquiet]

Fungal poisoning is typically extremely painful and prolonged. Would advise against it. Nearly any method is better, unless you for some reason want a slow death.

 

[Forever Sleep]

There's that recent case of a woman in Australia who has been accused of poisoning family members with mushrooms:

Erin Patterson: Mushroom lunch cook pleads not guilty to murder

Three people died after they were allegedly served poisonous mushrooms in regional Australia in 2023.

www.bbc.co.uk

Like 'findingquiet' just said though- I suspect it's very prolonged and painful. I think with these sorts of things- slow deaths, you have to consider how long you think you could put up with pain, not knowing 100% you will actually die from it and, not be tempted to call for help. I suspect it also depends on your own health. Someone with poor health already is going to be more likely to be affected. Like always with DIY methods, it's all the unknowns that trouble me.

Plus, I'm crap at things like identifying plants. I'd probably spend hours working up the courage to eat the things and they'd end up being normal mushrooms knowing me.

 

[Edpal247]

There's that recent case of a woman in Australia who has been accused of poisoning family members with mushrooms:

Erin Patterson: Mushroom lunch cook pleads not guilty to murder

Three people died after they were allegedly served poisonous mushrooms in regional Australia in 2023.

www.bbc.co.uk

Like 'findingquiet' just said though- I suspect it's very prolonged and painful. I think with these sorts of things- slow deaths, you have to consider how long you think you could put up with pain, not knowing 100% you will actually die from it and, not be tempted to call for help. I suspect it also depends on your own health. Someone with poor health already is going to be more likely to be affected. Like always with DIY methods, it's all the unknowns that trouble me.

Plus, I'm crap at things like identifying plants. I'd probably spend hours working up the courage to eat the things and they'd end up being normal mushrooms knowing me.

I have grown both food and psychoactive mushrooms. In most parts of USA there are 10-12 totally edible ones I have harvested from the wild. Really helps to know what you are looking at. Of course, there are those programs where you take a picture and they identify the plant or mushroom. But yea, mushroom poisoning is a 2-3 day ordeal. I went for a walk today and so some growing on the mulch in front of a business. Now, I suspected they were poisonous, but not THAT poisonous. Some just give terrible stomach pain for days. Abort that mission!

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

When I was a kid I used to eat random mushrooms off the ground growing outside my elementary school. Nothing bad happened at all sadly but they did taste pretty bad.