I am just curious about this for no real reason. I was watching the History channel and saw that people in WW2 took cyinide capsules instead of being arrested. The capsules worked with in minutes. That confuses me. I have heard people being posioned with cyinide but it takes a long time to buid up the posion to a deadly level. I asm just wondering how a small capsule that work so fast and some poor people have to suffer for a long time????? i also know people have used the capsule for group suicides. I have worked in the health field for a long time and I always though a oral posion has to travel through the body, so the capsule would not really be able to break open and and spread the posion very far. How does this work. I do not want this information to hurt anyone or my self. i have been studying the mental side of crime for a long time now....... So how does it work so fast?
2007-02-05 14:56:08 · 1 answers · asked by melindarix@sbcglobal.net 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
They don't swallow the capsules, they bite them releasing the poison into their bloodstream via the salivary glands. It then travels to their heart and brain causing them to die within minutes.
2007-02-05 15:02:14 · answer #1 · answered by ~Christine~ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋