Should this have killed my friend?

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Mday

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one of these days, the law books will make the sentence for attempted suicide the death penalty.
 

GundamF91

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if she hadn't mixed the drugs she would've died. mixing them cause problems in stomach and esophagus. tell her to go see a shrink.
 

GuruMogens

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If you wanna find out how dangerus the medicin was, the best way to find out is make the same or a simelaer mix and send it to a lab. When your friend took the Aspirin she were lucky. The bodys function to vomit is encresed when taking the Aspirin.
 

StageLeft

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Really depends how much she took of each. A person would need the exact dosages to even hazard a guess.

Edit: argh
 

Pepsi90919

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Mday's right...if they really wanted to kill themselves but failed, the government would assist them.
 

Raspewtin

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<< Is she lucky to be alive today? Should this amount of medication have killed her? >>



it depends exactly on the drugs and how they interact, amounts, etc. But she is lucky to be alive today, just like the rest of us are :).
 

TripleJ

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If you take all those different drugs, it is very hard to predict what it will do to the body. Sometimes they can react with one another, sometimes they counter one another. And everything affects people differently. Most of those medicines you mention have a lot of leeway with regards to the potential to harm someone. But it doesn't sound too life threatening.

None the less, she is still very lucky to be alive. How is she getting along now? I hope she's OK. I have seen what people go through in situations like that and you really feel sad for them.



<<one of these days, the law books will make the sentence for attempted suicide the death penalty.>>

Skoorb, Mday's only having a little joke. It's quite ironical and a bit of black humour. No harm intended I'm sure. So I found that quite funny.
 

StageLeft

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triple

Yeah I think I actually misread his post in that it was his wish rather than him thinking maybe they would bring it into law! :eek:

Hence full removal of my edited post!