Japanese fad: rotten-egg suicide gassing
“Traditionally” Japanese suicide with been done in the past couple of decades with carbon monoxide –poisoning with leaving a small, burning, charcoal grill in a confined space or commonly inside a rented automobile. However, there has been a new fad in the past few months to mix Japanese Sunpole® toilet cleaner and bath salts to produce deadly poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas. The problem is that poisonous hydrogen sulfide–the rotten-egg gas–produces a lot of collateral damage killing the rescuers… family members, firefighters, and police officers. It even endangers people in other apartments below the suicide room since the gas is heavier than air.
Couple suspected of gassing themselves to death with hydrogen sulfide
Mainichi Daily News, April 17, 2008 KITAKYUSHU – A couple is suspected of fatally gassing themselves in a suicide pact by mixing detergents in their car and generating toxic hydrogen sulfide, police said Thursday. The case follows a spate of 26 incidents in which 27 people have allegedly killed themselves by mixing detergents and generating hydrogen sulfide since the beginning of this year, police said. In some cases, family members or neighbors also suffered poisoning…more…
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April 17th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
2-ch says: 「練炭自殺に代わる、新しい自殺方法が開発された。火 をおこす必要はない。練炭よりも簡単」 “A new suicide method has been developed to replace Briquettes! Do not need to kindle a fire– Easier [and cleaner] than charcoal.”
May 1st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Thanks for putting pictures of the 2 chemicals on your website. Now all the Gaijins can join the fun too… Atleast this trend has allowed me to get to work on time as people have stopped jumping in front of the trains. Have you ever seen a jumper? In my years in Tokyo I have seen it 4 times and everytime they survived (at least long enough to scream the whole bloody time we waited for them to be cleared). What a dumb way to go. But not as dumb as 3yen for posting the magic solutions. I hope you get sued when some moron murders his neighbors trying to kill himself!
May 1st, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Besides the fact the less common chemical is being not sold any longer in Japan, the combination has posted in English on the International Herald Tribune, JapanToday and Japan Probe as well thousands of times on 2Ch and Japanese websites. It’s not a state secret, sheesh.
May 4th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Bloomberg published an article with a more detailed ‘recipe’ entitled: “Toilet Cleaner, Bath Liquid Spark New Wave of Suicides in Japan” by Sachiko Sakamaki and Stuart Biggs May 3 — Bloomberg.com .
September 26th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
hey what would you need to buy in UK london to make that?
March 16th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Help! Someone please tell me the U.S. recipe for creating the fatal gas. I have common sense and will ensure that nobody else is harmed when I do it. I can’t afford to live and am fully burned out and over making desperate attempts to; I have no more interest in that after going broke for many years beginning as a child. Please just give me the damn recipe because it’s my miserable hellish existence and I can no longer afford it. Do I mix any random pesticide with the toilet bowl cleaner? The pesticides that I’ve read labels on do not list the inactive ingredients, so I want to know specifically which one(s) to buy. Thank You for helping me to end my hellish struggle of a miserable existence.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
A new suicide method was developed instead of suicide by hanging and suicide by briquest(carbon monoxide poisoning).
You don’t have to provide rope for suicide by hanging or make a fire for suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
It is easier than suicide by hanging or by briquest(carbon monoxide poisoning).
Only mix 2 kinds of liquids those you can buy at drugstore or at gardening corner of homesenter.
[Hydrogen sulfide],a potent poison than carbon monoxide,occur quickly.
* It is sometimes misunderstanded with “chlorine gas”,but it is [Hydrogen sulfide],more potently. *
You can lose your senses in a second(knock down) if you breath [high concentration hydrogen sulfide] above 1000ppm!!!!
You can’t “knock down” with “chlorine gas”!
Strong Acid + Calcium Polysulfides = Hydrogen sulfide (H2S)
*If in a bathroom or a car,enough with each 2 litters (about half gallon).
*You can use sulfuric acid of a car battery as strong acid, and you can use a pesticide lime sulfur as calcium polysulfides.
It reachs a fatal concentration above 1000ppm quickly.
（Please mix in a vessel, such as buckets）
Acid Sources
Lysol(R) Ready to Use Disinfectant (4-8 percent citric and hydroxyacetic acid)
Lysol(R) Toilet Bowl Cleaner (9.5 percent HCl)
Sno Bol(R) Toilet Cleaner (15 percent HCl)
The Works(R) Toilet Bowl Cleaner (15-25 percent HCl)
Blu-Lite(R) Germicidal Acid Bowl Cleaner (20.5 percent phosphoric acid)
Kaboom(R) Shower, Tub, and Tile Cleaner (5-7 percent urea-monohydrochloric acid)
Tile, stone cleaners (1-30 percent HCl)
Sulfur Sources
Artist oil paints (0-15 percent zinc sulfide)
Dandruff shampoos (1.0 percent selenium sulfide)
**Pesticides (5-30 percent calcium polysulfides) coooooooooool!!!!!!!!
Spackling paste (1-2 percent zinc sulfide)
Some latex paints (6.6 percent zinc sulfide)
Garden fungicides (5-90 percent sulfur)
Hydrogen Sulfide: A Potential First Responder Hazard
Advisory New York State Office of Homeland Security September 26, 2008
Emergency Managers Advisory
http://srems.com/site/newsFiles/DHS_Note_Hydrogen_Sulfide.pdf
Dangerous Japanese ‘Detergent Suicide’ Technique Creeps Into U.S.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/japanese-deterg.html
March 20th, 2009 at 10:13 am
Remember kids, don’t try the advice of “Dr.kiriyu”.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
March 25th, 2009 at 6:37 am
This page has been very helpful. I just have two questions. 1)Do I pour the lime sulfur spray (ZnS) into the toilet bowl cleaner (HCL)? (I want to do it right so that I can avoid accidentally blowing anything up and injuring innocent people in the area) 2)In Japan people mixed approx. 4 liters of each hydorgen sulfur ingredient, which would be just over a gallon U.S. Should I mix approx. 1 gallon of the lime sulfur spray and toilet bowl cleaner? Thanks to all of the people who actually have the ability to think for themselves unlike most weak robotic puppet clones who couldn’t think for themselves to save their own existence. It’s the people who learn how to think for themselves who know this world is a sick joke. The weak cloned little puppets just do as they’re told or taught. =}
March 31st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
there are a couple of threads about this gas in the alt.suicide.methods newsgroup.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
To Alyssa
>1)Do I pour the lime sulfur spray (ZnS) into the toilet bowl cleaner (HCL)? (I want to do it right so that I can avoid accidentally blowing anything up and injuring innocent people in the area)
Lime sulfur is CaS. Not ZnS.
You can generate Hydrogen Sulfide GAS by mixing lime sulfur solution(CaS) and toilet bowl cleaner (HCl). It’s very very easy.
But Hydrogen Sulfide GAS is very potent POISON GAS. You may injur innocent people in the area.
To avoid injuring innocent people in the area, you must carry out in a car or tent at place where person doesn’t exist(for example, in forest or coast).
>2)In Japan people mixed approx. 4 liters of each hydorgen sulfur ingredient, which would be just over a gallon U.S. Should I mix approx. 1 gallon of the lime sulfur spray and toilet bowl cleaner?
[Suicidal poisoning due to hydrogen sulfide produced by mixing a liquid bath essence containing sulfur and a toilet bowl cleaner containing hydrochloric acid]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18516944
To examine the amount of hydrogen sulfide produced, small portions of these liquids were mixed in a 560-mL volume flask.
The results showed that 0.1 mL of each liquid produced 4,950 ppm of hydrogen sulfide, and 0.2 mL of each produced 10,800 ppm.
According to these results, if the cabin volume is assumed to be 3,300 L, mixing 120 mL of each liquid produces a lethal level of hydrogen sulfide, i.e., 1,000 ppm.
Toilet bowl cleaner used for suicide in Japan is containing 9.5% HCl. It is equal Lysol(R) Toilet Bowl Cleaner (9.5 percent HCl)
Liquid bath essence “610HAP” used for suicide in Japan is containing about 20%-25% calcium polysulfides. It is equal Pesticides lime sulfur.
Please calculate to apply. Do it yourself.
GOOD LUCK!!!!
April 15th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
My fellow on Orkut shared this linkie, and I’m not disappointed at all that I came here.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Site photo of “Detergent Suicide” at Ada County U.S.A.
http://s02.megalodon.jp/2009-0917-2216-16/itteyosi.fortunecity.com/idahoH2S02.JPG
http://cscs.txstate.edu/icjs/downloads/Safety%20Alerts/DetergentSuicideCase.pdf
DON’T MIX IN SUBWAY OR UNDERGROUND SHOPPING MALL!!!! DON’T MIX IN SUBWAY OR UNDERGROUND SHOPPING MALL!!!!
“La jodaso stiana.”