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OldCurlyWolf wrote:

WildBill wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

WildBill wrote:"The car was clearly identified as having a poisonous gas," Martin said. "He did make preparations to notify emergency responders, so they would not become involved in the incident as well."l

A responsible suicide. Wow.

One of the comments on the article suggested that this was a former NASA employee who got laid off. Who ever it was, it sounds like it was well thought out and he took care so that no first responders would be injured. BTW, hydrogen sulfide [rotten egg smell] is more deadly than hydrogen cyanide, the gas that was used in California's gas chamber.

Here's another link. The man was indentified as Jaideep Sen, 47, of Webster. Authorities found a note with a New York relative’s phone number and instructions, Florence said.

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I am very aware of Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S). It is used to make ethyl and methyl mercaptan (odorants for Natural Gas so you can smell a leak).

We were taught that when in deadly concentrations you can smell the first breath, then it kills the smell receptors, you don't smell the second and the third kills you. Very bad stuff.

We made some H2S in a High School chemistry lab class and wound up having to evacuate the building. And this was actually part of the lesson for the day—not the evacuation part, but the experiment part.

Each pair of students mixed equal molar fractions of Iron and Sulphur in a test tube (I forget the weights); heated the mixture over a bunsen burner until it reacted, forming a pellet of FeS; immersed that pellet in HCl under a vent; and voila! FeS + 2 HCl → FeCl2 + H2S. (It's been 44 years, so I think I'm remembering the process correctly. If there's a chemist here to correct me, feel free to do so.) There were 10 or so pairs of students doing this same thing. Anyway, it turned out that the chem lab's vent system was tied into the building's AC system at the wrong point, or cross-linked, or something like that, and all the classroom's in the school's new science building had to be evacuated due to a strong rotten egg smell. I didn't learn until later how dangerous the situation had been. The scary part is that this was the actual lesson. It wasn't just somebody messing around. Fortunately, nobody got hurt.

Webb School for Boys, Claremont, California circa 1967-68.... the day that a hundred or so scions of America's wealthiest families were nearly knocked off en-masse by a dumb accident. I was there, directly involved, but you'll never hear about it anywhere else.

Suicide hits close to home for me. I am self-employed indirectly because of my employer and long time friend's suicide. He hung himself from a backyard arbor crossbeam outside his mother's kitchen window back in California, almost ensuring that she would be the one to find him. I believe that in itself was a statement to her. It's by God's mercy that his best friend, suspecting that he might try to harm himself, went over there to try and stop him—too late—and cut him down before his mother found him that way.

I moved here to Texas because of my friend's desire to relocate his company here. I know that suicides often think that they are the problem and that removing themselves will do everyone around them a kindness. But the reality is that they leave in their wake a trail of damaged lives and broken hearts, and it really is the ultimate act of irresponsibility. My friend left behind a wife, a daughter just entering high school, and a son in middle school who has not been able to regain his footing ever since.

WildBill wrote:"The car was clearly identified as having a poisonous gas," Martin said. "He did make preparations to notify emergency responders, so they would not become involved in the incident as well."l

A responsible suicide. Wow.