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Suicide pills for sale on Internet

2011-08-02 13:51    Ecns.cn     Web Editor: Zhang Chan

(Ecns.cn)--A web user surnamed Yu in Hubei Province recently found a local online shop selling euthanasia pills through an Internet forum. The pills containing potassium cyanide sell for 300 yuan ($46.6) per gram. The shop claims that four grams will put a grown man to sleep in 10 seconds and kill him in two minutes.

The shop owner nicknamed "Heng Dao" says he is a local doctor with sufficient access to medications, according to the Chutian Metro Daily.

The man says that people come to him for the pills for various reasons, including being diagnosed with cancer, going through a break up, etc.

He says clients must pay first. After he receives the money he delivers the pills through a third party.

There are other online shops selling so-called euthanasia medicines in the same way. Most of the sellers claim to be doctors, who do not ask why people want to buy the pills.

Drugs like euthanasia medicines are forbidden, says a local lawyer in Hubei. If the pills are for real, these people will be arrested and punished, he says.