In assisted suicide, the oral method,
15 grams of Pentobarbital (a barbiturate) dissolved in a drink is used. The doctor reaches out
medium on. The patient drinks it and falls into a deep sleep. Breathing slows and
eventually stops. The patient also dies from lack of oxygen. From the notifications of help
in the case of suicide, however, it appears that in about a tenth of the cases still via the vein
must be injected because the patient has not died within the stipulated time (2-5 hours), or
because the patient has (partially) vomited the drink.
It is also known from elsewhere that things do not always go as expected. In Switzerland use the
"Sterbehilferinnen" from Dignitas and Exit also 15 grams of Pentobarbital orally. She, but also the
"Oberstaatsanwald", told me that it always works, if you wait long enough. In a
In some cases the death lasted more than a day. Similar experiences are known
of suicide with Pentobarbital ordered over the internet (China and Mexico route).