This may need to be wordsmithed and added as a sticky somewhere. I am a PhD chemist with very extensive background in chemistry and medicine having been a professor at a medical school and worked in pharma.
I keep reading posts that scare me and make me feel strong empathy regarding the desperation associated with someone looking for a method that is accessible and could be successful.
Please, for your own sake and bodily safety: Do not treat household chemicals such as cleaners, acids and bases, OTC medicines, and stretches such as overdosing on table salt, sugar, caffeine, or solvents such as gasoline or paint thinner as a method to successfully catch the bus!!!
It is completely true that all of these can be toxic and in some cases have caused death. One reason they are available and not banned or kept under close restriction is that they have a very low likelihood of killing someone by accidental contact or ingestion.
In almost all of the cases, very high doses of these things will cause your GI system to reverse gears and vomit as the body works to protect itself. In the case of caustic chemicals they will tear apart your digestive system but leave you completely alive only in dramatic pain and possibly needing continuous medical attention for the resto do your life (catching the bus included).
Chemicals with low toxicity for human use which include OTC medicines have side effects but almost never is that principal side effect death even at very high doses. They can cause damage to organs and perhaps that can eventually kill you but not without pain, consciousness, hospital treatments, attempts to help you and you very likely wishing you had not ingested that chemical.
I reach out to you in your moment of pain, desperation, fear, and desire to catch the bus and ask you to please not even consider these methods. No amount of discussion will change the cold science that these are not quick deaths and are not toxic enough to kill you with low concentration and many of them at high concentration will simply maim your insides irreversibly. I care about you and empathize with you and feel for you in your pain but these methods are not medically safe or scientifically safe for inducing death.
I am not addressing SN, cyanide, carbon monoxide or the neurotoxins found in certain deadly plants in this discussion and those have their own threads. I am addressing common chemicals, OTC medicines foods and food additives and household cleaners. Again, please do not treat these as ways to catch the bus!
