[Publib] philosophical wisdom please

[Backwage at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/22/2007 2:25:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
HDutcher at enfield.org writes:

My staff is in a quandary over a resent  spat of reference questions, 
although we believe they may be coming from the  same individual.  The question each 
and every time is "How long does it  take for a person to die from carbon 
monoxide  poisoning?"


You might wish to add that it is now very difficult to kill yourself with  
car exhaust fumes.  See:  
_http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/141/4/592_ (http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/141/4/592)    
On the other hand, you can make yourself extremely ill.  As to how long, it  
depends upon the concentration, and you can tell your patron that it is tough 
to  get a high enough concentration for lethality--if that weren't true, all 
the  idiots who bring barbeque grills indoors would be statistics now.  
 
What you may be looking at is an offshoot of the current fascination with  
death arising from the CSI type programming on television, in which supposedly  
expert folk solve suspicious deaths within the hour, minus time for  
commercials.  I walked through the living room the other night and found my  wife, who 
has an entire library of such videos, watching as some victim was  peeled from 
a hard surface beneath the gaze of a lovely investigator and her  handsome 
assistant.  And people wonder why I don't watch television.
 
M. McGrorty



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