Rob:
Both McKinney and Bedard told me about people who took Tylenol or phosphorous, which also destroys the liver (and incidentally produces phosphorescent vomit). In both cases, they slept off the initial sickness and recovered for five days -- during which time they decided suicide was a mistake after all and they wanted to live. But the liver had been destroyed and after five days each of them started to feel very sick, passed into deep coma, and died. "He knew it would happen and that there was nothing we could do about it," Bedard said, "and his friends and family knew it, and for five days they sat in the hospital together waiting for it."
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So he knew five days before they were just about to arrest him? If you were gonna off yourself to avoid prison wouldn't you do something that worked quicker or wasn't reversible?
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Addition, if an adult consumes a lethal amount of Tylenol, it generally takes three or four days for death to occur. "It's not an instant death at all," Doctor Christensen said.
"As health-care providers, our main goal is to save the liver. If the ingested amount of Tylenol is too great for the liver to handle, it will begin to fail and we desperately try to overcome that failure with the Mucomyst medication," the doctor said.
"All scenarios and individuals are different, but sometimes once liver damage begins it can rapidly continue to full blown liver failure and death will soon ensue," he said. "When the liver is in complete failure, the only treatment is a liver transplant, which generally doesn't happen. Once the liver fails, it fails."
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