Carbon Monoxide Suicide

Carbon Monoxide Suicide

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Carbon Monoxide Suicide

Carbon Monoxide Suicide Involving Motor Vehicles:

The Problem:
Suicide in Australia, especially that of young males has attained an alarming rate in recent years, higher than that in the USA and most other countries. Moreover, the use of motor-vehicle exhaust gas for this purpose has assumed the most popular role in such suicides.

The Australian Medical Association in cooperation with other governmental and industrial groups as well as various individuals in Australia are attempting to find ways of reducing this tragic loss of young life. It is felt that by limiting the availability of the lethal component carbon monoxide (CO) in motor vehicle exhaust gas, the rate of use of this method will decline, possibly saving several hundred lives per year.

The use of this poison is often chosen because of availability, ease of use, and supposed painless induction. The role of the media in reporting deaths from CO poisoning and the use of CO by Dr. Jack Kevorkian in the USA are felt to be exacerbating factors.

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Carbon Monoxide Deaths

Family in carbon monoxide horror
A SHOCKED family and their 15-month-old baby narrowly escaped death when they were poisoned with a killer gas while on holiday.

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