sam_neil t1_jb4jtu0 wrote
Reply to comment by Dump_Bucket_Supreme in Woman found dead in Jeep full of noxious chemicals on Manhattan’s Sutton Place in bizarre suspected suicide by justthekoufax
It’s not common. Like a few dozen cases annually in the US. It’s worth remembering though, because of the insane danger it poses to responders or good samaritans trying to help.
It really got big in Japan in like 2007 or so and became “a thing” since then.
I can only think of it happening in NYC three times off the top of my head, over the course of my ten years working in EMS. Anyone who researches how to kill themselves can come up with way better methods, but this is the nuclear option so to speak.
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