thank you, Mainlænder, for sharing your experience. what you went through sounds deeply traumatic; i'm so sorry for your loss. i imagine it's difficult to share and type out your experiences too, but i'm grateful that you did -- all observations re ingesting SN are valuable, whether they're peaceful or not. awareness of what may happen when using
any method is important (fearmongering/trolling aside). you mentioned being unsure of when your friend lost consciousness...
i ODed on imipramine + quetiapine ~15 years ago and was found in an isolated public toilet. i'd aspirated my vomit and was struggling to breathe. it must have been very loud for anyone to have been alerted to me and i assume it sounded equally unpleasant, but i have no memory of it whatsoever -- no discomfort or trauma at all. PPeH's (
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death-via-SN timeline indicates unconsciousness at ~12 minutes. it seems possible that your friend's consciousness was minimal or absent by the time the vomiting/aspiration began, so her suffering may also have been minimal or absent (despite how brutal it sounded). i dearly hope that that was the case.
everyone reacts differently to almost all methods, everyone's implementation of a method is different, etc... unfortunately, those differences may result in suffering for almost all methods. thanks also to SerenitySeeker and everyone else who posts their experiences with methods. this clarifies side-effect profiles and helps people decide which method is best for them.
just as a few not-unpleasant reports of failures with a method aren't a guarantee of that method's peacefulness, a few nasty reports of failures aren't a guarantee of that method's painfulness... but suffering is far more impactful than pleasure, at least to me. i'm rambling again, sorry.