Discussion More than one way to catch the bus

[hemlocked]

I've always been a careful person - in the sense that I like redundancy. Backups. Spare parts. A well stocked pantry.

I just hate running out of things, or finding out that something I rely on has broken and that ordering a replacement will take forever.

(Perhaps I missed my calling as a prepper somewhere in post-apocalyptic, aka present day, US America.)

I'm the same when it comes to catching the bus. I guess you could call me a CTB prepper.

• I have prepared and tested my primary exit, nitrogen.
• I have my backup ready, sodium nitrite, puke meds, etc.
• I have a bunch of poison hemlock seeds (Conium maculatum). A bit unconventional, but if it was good enough for Socrates I bet it's good enough for me.
• I have a bottle of ricin. Well, castor beans really (Ricinus communis). Perhaps in a smoothie?
• Some nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
• A large plastic bag and sleeping pills. This method was described in older copies of Final Exit but has been removed because of a high likelihood of failure. It's a race between the sleeping pills knocking you out before the bag fills with enough CO2 to trigger hypercapnia. I tried and survived this method earlier this year because I kept on not falling asleep and then panicking. Eventually my housemate came home and found me drugged to the gills but alive, and called an ambulance.

So my question to everyone here… are there any other people around here with multiple redundant methods that they have prepared? Care to name them? Care to point out any important considerations about any of the techniques named in this thread?