Talk:Suicide pill

message: There is another, very similar Wikipedia page called "Poison Pill". The degree of overlap in subject matter is obvious. We should merge both items together into one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_pill
Nabokov 07:45, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dunno.  The poison pill article seems to be almost entirely devoted to business and economics, where a suicide pill is an extreme version of the poison pill (i.e., they are not one and the same thing).  I am not seeing enough overlap to justify a merge, although I wouldn't oppose excizing the (minimal) espionage-related material from the poison pill article.  20:22, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: :"Aleksei Leonov, the first person to walk in space, recently (October 2006) admitted that during his journey into space he took along with him a suicide pill in the event of an irreconcilable emergency."
If anyone can find a source for this then it can be reinserted, but for now, no one (including me) has been able to find one. Robogymnast 05:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aleksei Leonov 

message: "Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide with a cyanide pill following his implication in the July 20 plot against Hitler.[3] Additionally, Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler, and a number of convicted Nazi war criminals, such as Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring are known to have committed suicide using lethal pills containing a solution of cyanide salts."
Adolf Hitler shot himself to death, not through the use of a cyanide pill. 83.83.235.201 (talk) 02:54, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought it was both a pill and a shot.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.170.233 (talk) 20:26, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples 

message: Could someone please expand the article, to explain how the potassium cyanide enters the bloodstream, once the glass has been broken? -- is it via the digestive tract (i.e. by swallowing the fluid)?  Or does the broken glass cut the mouth and cause the cyanide to enter directly into the bloodstream?  159.83.252.233 (talk) 19:49, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: I noticed that in the Examples section, Erwin Rommel is the only one without a cited article to back it up. Although his fate is somewhat commonly known, I feel the article could be more watertight with a proper source that says what is currently stated in the article. At first glance, it seems like it was awkwardly worded in a weirdly sympathetic tone. This source seems reliable and would probably work.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.29.247.238 (talk) 20:24, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm looking for a good reference now.  I found his son's eyewitness account, but it does not mention a pill.  Another source states the pill, but then goes on to contradict some facts the son mentioned. Work in progress, more to follow. --Dmol (talk) 04:08, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples: Erwin Rommel 

message: Because the disambiguation of poison pill points here, and because variations of it are contained in the body, I included a paragraph in the lead section.  Might need expanding. See also  Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lead section)  --69.110.90.19 (talk) 18:29, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  colloquial "poison pill" 

message: This is likely a useless question.  The article states: "It was...filled with a concentrated solution of potassium cyanide."
Now, I don't know the precise technical details concerning this BUT (i) What was the Potassium Cyanide dissolved in?  Potassium Cyanide has a habit of hydrolying in aqueous solution - does this pose a problem?
ASavantDude (talk) 13:59, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Dissolved in what?