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  • Title: A suicide using a homemade carbon monoxide "death machine".
    Author: Prahlow JA, Doyle BW.
    Journal: Am J Forensic Med Pathol; 2005 Jun; 26(2):177-80. PubMed ID: 15894855.
    Abstract:
    Deaths related to carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning are common. Most represent accidents and suicides, and most result from CO production via the incomplete combustion of carbon-containing substances. Suicide via CO toxicity is not uncommon and typically involves the use of motor-vehicle exhaust as a source of CO. Presented herein is a case of suicidal CO poisoning in which the CO was produced via a chemical reaction between formic acid and sulfuric acid within a homemade device.
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