In the videos I've seen, it really didn't take long for it to work. A quick Google shows far more varied results, though.
Time To Death
Experience in The Netherlands has learned that after ingesting 9 grams of either pentobarbital or secobarbital, death generally occurs within two hours (see the tables below).
- Time to death after oral ingestion of 9 grams pentobarbital (102 cases) or secobarbital (21 cases)
Time to death data in the Dutch euthanasia group: 123 cases from A. Horikx, staff member of the Royal Dutch Pharmaceutical Society.
Time To Death | Number of
people/percentages |
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0–15 minutes | 39 people (32%) |
16–30 minutes | 40 (33%) |
30–60 minutes | 21 (17%) |
1–2 hours | 9 (7%) |
Euthanasia by doctor after > 2 hours waiting | 9 (7%) |
Unknown time | 5 (4%) |
Total | 123 (100%) |