Suicide pill (Q6518556)

Method of suicide.

L-pill

Language	Label	Description	Also known as
English	Suicide pill	Method of suicide.	L-pill

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Suicide

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suicide pill (English)

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L-pills

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subject named as

suicide pill

archive URL

https://web.archive.org/web/20130817020101/http://www.gwu.edu/sites/www.gwu.edu/files/downloads/U2%20%20history%20complete.pdf

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Technical Challenges to High-altitude Flight / p.61 / p.65 / Food and water were not the only items provided to pilots on overflight missions: they also received a suicide pill. [...] Batlin suggested the method used by Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering, a thin glass ampule containing liquid potassium cyanide. He said [...] : death would follow in LO to !5 seconds. Project AQUATONE ordered six of the poison ampules, called L-pills, [...] (English)

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L-pills