and the Lord God commanded the man, saying, „you may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die“
-Genesis 2:16
let's assume the tree in question is the taxus baccata, and from eating enough of its seeds you shall surely die. my amount during my 2nd suicide attempt was sth around 100 (it was recommended to take a mouthful, which is what i did, not having had any better sources at that time), while a businessman rom the link below, who succeeded, apparently took 400.
-http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1088981/Businessman-committed-suicide-eating-graveyard-yewseeds-losing-wife-company.html
if you plan to eat some of these (so-called) yew seeds, the english or japanese ones, make sure you eat enough of them. more than i did. the result of my failure, btw, was, i woke up the next day, vomited every couple of minutes, and had to crawl from room to room, because everytime i tried to rise, i blacked out. it completely messed up my blood circulation. yet, just for a while. my body functionality returned to normal after only 1 week. the interval between ingestion and fainting was, as far as i remember, 30mins, and was painless. but if you'd experience a cardiac arrest before you pass out, it might not be painless after all.
"toxalbumins are protein phytotoxins [...] a type of ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIP, a most suitable acronym)", "poisoning proceeds as follows. first there is a latent period, in which nothing appears to be happening. in actuality, the toxin is hard at work, shutting down ribosomes. then things start to happen. time to get out your catastrophic health insurance card and head to the hospital. A little nausea, some vomiting and diarrhea. Some victims develop ulcerative lesions throughout their GI tract. the gastric mucosa starts to hemorrhage. total disruption of intestinal function leads to massive fluid and electrolyte loss, and death soon follows."
-http://www.drugsandpoisons.com/2008/01/lectins-peas-and-beans-gone-bad.html
toxalbumins are ricin (can be found in castor beans, which i already mentioned in my salad recipe), abrin (can be found in abrus precatorius seeds), viscumin and phoratoxin (both can be found in mistletoes), crepitin
(can be found in hura creptians seeds), jatrophin/curcin (can be found in jatropha curcas seeds), momordin (can be found in momordica seeds, fruits, outer rind, but is probably not suitable for a suicide, its toxic effect appears to be limited, no matter how much you eat), robin and phasin (can be found in black locust leaves and the bark. and apparently also black locust seeds, but they seem harmless) "various reports suggest that the seeds and the young pods of the black locust are edible"
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinia_pseudoacacia
"the fatal dose of abrin is approximately 75 times smaller than the fatal dose of ricin", "ingesting a single (abrus precatorius) seed can kill an adult human"
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrus_precatorius
dying can take days, though.
eating jatropha curcas seeds leads to following simptoms, after 15-20mins: "difficulty in breathing, sorethroat, bloating, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, drowsiness, dysuria and leg cramps"
-http://www.globinmed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104434:jatrophaintegrimma&catid=135&Itemid=141
and can end in death if the meal was sumptuous enough. yet, neither an exact nor an approx fatal dose to aim for is known to me. the same pertains to the other toxalbumins. it appears dying usually takes longer than what you'd get from yew seeds poisoning, but toxalbumin-trees aren't necessarily 2nd choice trees of knowledge, RIPs should be lethal in much smaller amounts.
Regarding your suicide attempt using yew seeds; did you grind them up or swallow them whole?
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