On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:33:32 -0000, "Mary Fisher"
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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in
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Warfarin-based poisons are not particularly unpleasant. The victims
just
get weaker and weaker and lapse into a coma.

The Warfarin tends to prevent the blood clotting, and the passage of
food down the gut abrades the villi (a design feature to allow
nutrients
to be absorbed through the walls of the blood vessels) and the animal
loses blood internally, and weakens and dies. There is no pain
involved.

How do you know?

Because I have been eating it for twelve years now. On a small number of
occasions I have had too much, resulting in internal bleeding. It is
entirely painless and the main symptoms are general creeping lassitude and
very darkly coloured faeces.

You still haven't explained how you know that enough to cause death is
painless.

You haven't any evidence that it isn't.
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