Poisoning for 8% of suicides. What poison?

[Lordsudbury]

Poisoning in Mexico accounts for 8% of suicides in the country. Anyone know what poisons they might refer to?

Brands or active ingredients, something I could search?

 

[sadworld]

SN is a poison

 

[KiraLittleOwl]

I guess some nasty pesticides

 

[Symbiote]

Jilted lovers poisoning their husbands with eye drops. Rat poison and other pesticides is another one.

 

[grungeCat]

As far as I know a lot of people in Latin America are involved in agriculture. These regions are hardly industrialized and very poor. This is one of the most major reasons why they have also easy access to pesticides, which are often used in terms of suicide.

 

[Meditation guide]

Jilted lovers poisoning their husbands with eye drops.

How come no one uses eye drops to ctb?

Also rat poison. It causes rats to bleed internally. It also causes birds and wildlife to die if they eat the dead rats.

 

[Symbiote]

How come no one uses eye drops to ctb?

Also rat poison. It causes rats to bleed internally. It also causes birds and wildlife to die if they eat the dead rats.

You would have to drink like 500-1000 bottles of eye drops to CTB. The murdered husbands were fed 10 drops of Visine in their coffee every day for 3 months, till they died of cardiac arrest.

 

[Infinite Conscious]

How come no one uses eye drops to ctb?

Also rat poison. It causes rats to bleed internally. It also causes birds and wildlife to die if they eat the dead rats.

Would you... drop poison into your eyes?
Into the most sophisticated "machine" in the universe, the 2nd most complex organ in our body (besides the brain) that provides us with 80% of our sensory experience?

Also, would you enjoy internal bleeding, which must hurt as hell... and without knowing for certain the outcome?

As for the OP question, the most popular method on this site and generally in the last couple of years involves poisoning - Sodium nitrite.
8% is not that much, so SN itself could account for half of those deaths.
They also have a number of cacti (plural of cactus) and and other poisonous plants in Mexico.

 

[Giraffey]

As someone pointed out above, pesticides are (were) a popular method of suicide in certain countries but that has more to do with accessibility and by no means represents it being a pleasant death. Indeed, I have been in life-threatening situations in which despite being suicidal I have actively saved my own life - not because of any 'survival instinct' but to avoid an unplanned and unpleasant death.

Also rat poison. It causes rats to bleed internally. It also causes birds and wildlife to die if they eat the dead rats.

Nasty business. I prefer a trap box. One must be careful with pesticides though. A little off-topic, but I remember a close friend of mine and terrible arachnophobe asked for my advice on ridding his apartment of spiders. I gave him an industrial insecticide with the caution that he used it on the wall and ceiling junctions and not to spray them directly... Of course, he didn't listen.

Fast forward a few weeks and I get a panicked phone call in the middle of the night, a giant house spider (one of the largest species seen in the UK) has crept into his bedroom; he sprayed it with the insecticide and it "angered" the spider which was now on the warpath running around at great speed in random directions. I calmly explained to him that for a spider of that size, spraying it directly with insecticide would result in it receiving only a small dose of poison, the poison in question being a neurotoxin that at small doses caused hyperactivity and erratic behaviour.

People rarely appreciate the consequences of some of these chemicals. The same applies to chemicals used for suicide in humans, the detergent method for example. It's effective yes, but extremely painful. Likewise, drinking corrosive chemicals such as 'drain cleaner', effective but the pain must surely be horrendous.

I would steer clear of poisons, I can barely imagine how desperate I would have to be to consider such a method. But then again, everybody's circumstances are different.

 

[bov]

How broadly can we define poison? Is CO a poison? Is Helium or Nitrogen, or any element that displaces Oxygen, a poison?

 

[Lordsudbury]

How broadly can we define poison? Is CO a poison? Is Helium or Nitrogen, or any element that displaces Oxygen, a poison?

I'm not sure, I was hoping maybe someone based in Latin America could provide some insight. I live in Mexico but I'm not sure which poisons people are using.

I found a few websites where it looks like I could even buy cyanide, and of course Ive investigated buying N as well since it is used as an animal tranquilizer.