Is 10 liters of helium enough?

[lordofbody]

I am thinking of committing suicide with helium. Is 10 liters of helium enough?

 

[Greenberg]

A 10L water capacity cylinder is equivalent to ~60cf of gas; so it is definitely sufficient for your needs. However, please be advised that most retail helium is doped with oxygen. As an alternative, you can choose either nitrogen or argon, and methane to a lesser degree. Hope that helps.

 

[lordofbody]

A 10L water capacity cylinder is equivalent to ~60cf of gas; so it is definitely sufficient for your needs. However, please be advised that most retail helium is doped with oxygen. As an alternative, you can choose either nitrogen or argon, and methane to a lesser degree. Hope that helps.

Thanks

 

[Greenberg]

My pleasure. Best!

 

[Endeavour]

I saw a news report a while back where some company was selling helium kits so schools could send up a big balloon with a tiny camera attached to it, that would transmit the images back to the school, so the kids could see, essentially, the edge of space.

I wondered how many of those kits would you need to lift a human to the edge of space - or pretty high up?

Got to have a lot more lift than a hot air balloon, right?

And if that happened - ignoring wind, etc - assuming you went straight up, and the earth is spinning - how long would it be before you were over the Pacific - or Europe - or wherever?

 

[Crusader]

Are you going to use a scuba mask or exit bag ? I prefer scuba mask.