Suicidal Nitrogen Inhalation by use of Scuba Full-Face Diving Mask

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Journal of Forensic Medicine, September 2013

"A 29-year-old student from Germany was found dead lying naked on the bed in a hotel room in a famous Slovak mountain resort. He had a full-face diving mask on his face, connected through a diving breath regulator to a valve of an industrial (nondiving) high-pressure tank containing pure 100% nitrogen. The breath regulator (open-circuit type) used allowed inhalation of nitrogen without addition of open air, and the full-face diving mask assured aspiration of the gas even during the time of unconsciousness. At autopsy, we found the typical signs of suffocation. Toxicological analysis revealed 94.7% content of nitrogen in alveolar air. Following the completion of the police investigation, the manner of death was classified as a suicide. Within the medico-legal literature, there has been only one similar case of suicidal nitrogen inhalation described."

 
Yes hot - wish we saw rest of his body!
 
Dude was quite fit IMO.

He was autopsied at the morgue in Bratislava there are definately more pics but they will never release them.
 
Suicide by helium inhalation gained a lot of attention a few years ago. Maybe nitrogen will become the next big agent of self-deliverance.
 
A technical way to go for someone who prefers a non violent death
 
Nae problem - could spray your corpse with the flamethrower for an immediate cremation :)
 
Just tying a plastic bag over your head will do the trick just as well, I think.
But I wonder how agonizing death by suffocation is, and how long it takes to pass out.
 
I've read that Nitrogen inhalation is probably the most painless and relaxed way to die.
Apparently you don't get any sensation of suffocating. The breathing response which makes you breath faster when exercising, (or you have a plastic bag on your head) is caused by an increase of carbon dioxide and not the lack of oxygen.
Nitrogen already makes up 70% of the air we breath. A pure nitrogen environment won't cause shortness of breath or faster breathing. You simply breath normally without distress. Eventually you become light headed as the brain has less oxygen, similar to feeling drunk. Then you fall asleep still blissfully unaware that you will never wake (unless someone gives you oxygen quickly).
Finally as your vital organs loose use the last oxygen from your body they begin to shut down.

It has been suggested this would be a more humane execution than lethal injection which supposedly can cause pain after the paralysis.
 
PiercedChest said:
Just tying a plastic bag over your head will do the trick just as well, I think.
But I wonder how agonizing death by suffocation is, and how long it takes to pass out.
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Probably not as agonisig as the pressure on the neck from hanging or strangling. But death by plastic bsg takes several mintes, and I gather the dying body normally pisses and shits before the end.
 
Anyway, here is the full journal content.
http://www.researchgate.net/publica...-Face_Diving_Mask/file/72e7e51fbbb5f969ab.pdf

I was questioning on why the deceased was naked, and I finally found the answer.
No evidence of sexual paraphilia at the place of death (no pornographic materials, no erotic devices, adverse achievement from interrogation of the cell phone and the notebook, no signs of spermatism, his nakedness is explainable by high ambient temperature in the hotel room (detected at the time of examination at the place)
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1731sneakers said:
I've read that Nitrogen inhalation is probably the most painless and relaxed way to die.
Apparently you don't get any sensation of suffocating. The breathing response which makes you breath faster when exercising, (or you have a plastic bag on your head) is caused by an increase of carbon dioxide and not the lack of oxygen.
Nitrogen already makes up 70% of the air we breath. A pure nitrogen environment won't cause shortness of breath or faster breathing. You simply breath normally without distress. Eventually you become light headed as the brain has less oxygen, similar to feeling drunk. Then you fall asleep still blissfully unaware that you will never wake (unless someone gives you oxygen quickly).
Finally as your vital organs loose use the last oxygen from your body they begin to shut down.

It has been suggested this would be a more humane execution than lethal injection which supposedly can cause pain after the paralysis.
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Thanks, very interesting info, I'll check that out (not that I doubt you, just want to find some more background info).
 
deaddirty said:
Probably not as agonisig as the pressure on the neck from hanging or strangling. But death by plastic bsg takes several mintes, and I gather the dying body normally pisses and shits before the end.
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Yes, that's why I was wondering if this is a less distressing way to end your life (I've no plans for that, but the time may come when I would like to have an easy way out without bothering doctors or anyone else).

I once found an elderly couple a few houses off where I live who had committed suicide together by tying plastic bags over their heads when he was terminally ill and she didn't want to live without him, and though I didn't inspect them at all (I called the Dutch equivalent of 911 straightaway) it was clear it wasn't an easy ride.

Last week I attended the funeral of a man who had twisted enough arms of doctors and others to get a lawful euthanasia (he was deteriorating mentally fast, and didn't want to end up as a drooling vegetable in an Alzheimer home). In Holland, the law is a doctor can perform euthanasia on someone who a) is suffering intolerably b) is of sound mind and has a strong death wish based on this suffering and c) has obtained the consent of a another doctor (as a second opinion) who agrees.

I think it should be easier for anyone who wants to end his/her life to do so than this counterproductive procedure, and to have a more humane way at your disposal.
 
PiercedChest said:
Just tying a plastic bag over your head will do the trick just as well, I think.
But I wonder how agonizing death by suffocation is, and how long it takes to pass out.
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From everything I have read (including Derek Humphry's suicide books) concerning the question you raise, death solely by mean of suffocation from a plastic bag over the head is a HORRIBLE way to go. It is hardly even comparable to dying by inhaling those gases we've been discussing. With helium (or nitrogen) inhalation you supposedly have no sensation at all of not being able to breathe. There is no sense of panic that you'd have with a plastic bag cutting off your air intake. You simply feel the need to breathe more deeply and rapidly because your body senses you aren't obtaining sufficient oxygen. Then you pass out. Then you die. Apparently it results in a relatively quick and pleasant death. Canisters of helium used to be readily available to the general public from businesses that specialize in party supplies, for those who want to inflate a large number of balloons. However, knowing our busy-body government, restrictions may have been imposed on access to such gases since I last looked into the matter. Kees, don't you even consider lying down with nothing but a plastic bag over your head!
 
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1731sneakers said:
The breathing response which makes you breath faster when exercising, (or you have a plastic bag on your head) is caused by an increase of carbon dioxide and not the lack of oxygen.
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It would seem to me that, with a plastic bag, much depends on the size of the bag. The smaller the bag, the quicker you are going to find yourself without any gas to breathe at all, oxygen or CO2. Once you've sucked the last air out of that plastic bag, you will not be breathing at all, just trying to breathe. You will, in effect, be in the midst of being cruelly strangled. That's what makes the nitrogen or helium so attractive. You can just keep on huffing it in (breathing) until you no longer exist.
 
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