OT - Commiting Hara-Kiri - 21st Century Style

Don't know if anyone else has been reading about this new method of committing suicide (think of it as "death in one breath") that is sweeping Japan of late.   We had a guy just 50 miles from me try it this past weekend in the backseat of his car.  It worked    :

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-07-20-japan-suicides _N.htm


  Heck, if I wanted to die by hydrogen sulfide gas, I could just eat a dozen cake doughnuts,  put a 50-gallon trash bag over myself and wait about an hour.      

The oilfield service companies out here in west Texas pay a whole lot of money in electronic monitoring and hiring safety personnel in order to keep their hands from dieing from H2S poisoning. Can't believe people are doing themselves in with the stuff on purpose. The could come out here and make $1000 a week while waiting on the right gas cloud to envelop them.

 lol, Fishdude ..   I remember driving out that way with the familly to visit my aunt and uncle as a kid (he was a toolshack foreman for Gulf back then near Penwell)  and I always wondered what that "oilfield smell" (like rotten eggs) was as we approached that part of the country, coming down the highway.   

   I guess, from what I've read up on the gas, that the reason it has to be so closely monitored is that light exposure to it actually "paralyzes" the sense of smell, so that one no longer can smell it, no matter how high the concentration then goes.          Stay safe!     

From what the safety guys tell us, if you can smell it, the concentration is not high enough to be dangerous. Everybody who works in a sour gas field wears a sensor that starts beeping at 15ppm. Wind is our best friend out here.