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Wow…I’ve been holding back…..pass the Kisses!!

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Cool site. One suggestion: add caffeine pills (vivarin being the most well known brand) at 200mg each. Probably the most useful statistic to have, since you really could pretty easily kill yourself via caffeine pills!

…so you gotta enlist germanys number 1 coffee,”Jacobs”(Kroenung!!!)…that one contains caffeine…bert/oldenburg

What’s the metabolic half-life of caffeine? I.e. would the body metabolise the caffeine fast enough to prevent the lethal dose from being achieved?
With the mints, the same is true…but at what point would the sugar overload the endocrine system and cause a diabetic coma? Before or after Death By Caffeine?

Bloody cool site though

Designadrug: The metabolic half-life is 5 hours give or take. Plus, caffeine “toxicity” is like a lot of drugs: the more you do, the more you can handle without adverse effects.

I think I answered it in a previous article, but you could almost never get enough caffeine from a soft drink to kill yourself. The liquid volume would dilute your body’s salts, or the phosphoric acid would eat your insides, or you might rupture something with that much liquid, or the sugars would overload your body’s ability to process them… there’s lots of ways your body ensures you never get to that point :). The caffeine pills are much more dangerous in that you could get a lethal dose from them– so dont play around with those. Look at the EROWID caffeine archives (search for it on google) for some bad stories involving pills.

i’m not taking any. i want to live longer.

[...] Death By Penguin Mints I got: It would take 682.50 Hershey’s Kisses to put you down [...]

“If you eat 2,131.59 Kit Kat Bars, you’ll be pushing up daisies”

if i started with 85Kg, by the time i ate the 2131th bar i would wheight roughly 20KG more, and then i could probably eat more too

wow~ I didn’t know about this yet.
But,I won’t eat 6,921.41 Hershey’s Kisses.^ ^

OK..you need to add andes mints to the list! Darn it..how can I find ut how many of my favourite mint will kill me if it is not on the list!

Also, you should, for Death by Caffeine, so some research into the australian sodas called ‘Red Eye’…just to be internationally friendly, and because I know I would want to know if I ever went to Australia how many would kill me!

mmmm,Chocolate

-Homer Simpson

Only 242 pieces of Jolt Gum to kill me?

I eat 20 a night and don’t have a problem falling asleep at night.

Isabela: Here comes the Clue Train (choo choo!), last stop: You.

There is something scientific about this. The amount of caffeine that causes death in people is a relatively well-established range. This calculator takes that well-established, scientific range, applies your body weight to it (since, of course, caffeine toxicity is relative to mass), and comes up with a number. That number represents how many grams of caffeine it would take to put you in the LD_50 category. It then takes the number of grams, figures out how many chocolate bars or sodas it would take to make that much caffeine, and spits out that number.

It’s as scientific as the study I got my LD_50 from, which was an academia research paper.

I’ve already covered in an earlier post that yes, it’s almost impossible to consume enough caffeine to die of caffeine poisoning. With chocolate, you’ll likely go into insulin shock, or simply won’t have the stomach capacity to eat it all. In addition, it takes time to digest, so the half-life (another sciency word) of caffeine would become a factor. With liquids, again, insulin shock, electrolyte dilution, damage from citric acid, etc.

This site is supposed to be fun. Were you always the girl that would tell other girls to stop playing with barbies because they aren’t realistic and promote a bad self-image? Tell boys to stop playing cowboys and indians because it’s offensive? Use the phrase “custodial engineer” instead of janitor? What a killjoy.

So funny, had my co-workers and I rolling, Thanks!

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wow…………I dident know that I could die from my fav energy drink……thats prity funny lol…
peace ppl