Manufactured by chlorinating alcohol and combining this chloral hydrate with pure nicotine, the Nicky Finn should prove highly effective and highly lethal when taken as a drink. Although synthesis was straightforward, the difficulty in testing this untried product left questions about this strategy unanswered.
Changing Focus
Exit International launched the ‘Peanut Project’ in early 2005. Named after an old-fashioned street term for barbiturate (Peanuts), the Peanut Project brought together a group of elderly people to create their own barbiturate. Could they synthesise Nembutal.
How could they make something: they could take orally
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that could be manufactured without outside assistance that would provide a peaceful and dignified death that would be reliable with negligible risk of failure.