Man died after taking 15 ecstasy tabs

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Man died after taking 15 ecstasy tabs

Posted: Fri 15/07/2005]

A 36-year-old man died after taking around 15 ecstasy tablets over the course of just a few hours, an inquest has heard.

The inquest into the death of James O'Donovan from Cobh, Co Cork, heard that in November of last year, he had gone to a house party in Cobh at around 1am. He was seen by other people at the party taking a large amount of ecstasy tablets between 1am and around 5.30am, when he started to become ill.

A friend of the deceased and witness at the inquest, Alan Moran, said he had become concerned at the rate which Mr O'Donovan was taking the tablets. Mr Moran rang an ambulance for Mr O'Donovan after he became ill.

The inquest was told that an autopsy of Mr O'Donovan revealed ecstasy levels of 5.3mgs per millilitre of blood. The fatal range was found to be between 0.6 and 2.8mgs.

The autopsy also revealed that Mr O'Donovan's liver, kidney and myocardium - the muscles around the heart - had started to rapidly decompose, due to the high temperature of his body at the time of his death.

Cork City Coroner, Dr Myra Cullinane, extended her sympathies to the family of Mr O'Donovan and said that the case highlighted the dangers of taking ecstasy. She returned a verdict of death by misadventure.

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Man died after taking 15 ecstasy tabs....
Man dies after being too stupid to continue living.
 
Yea fo sho. I dont know what people are thinking recently, seems like people are competing to take the most e and then they die. SO STUPID! Ive never taken more than three e's in a night and I feel bad doing that.

-weez
 
you would think being a 36 yr. old man he would have more sense.

on a side note, he did not have the heart of a 20 yr. old - 36 is well within the range where heart attacks can be a concern with any type of drug use
 
that is unfortunate for him since i would not bet on it being a suicide bid even though it looks like shear crazyness. but that is what, 1.5g mdma in those pills. what is the LD50 anybody?
 
[S]alvatore said:
Fuck him, no-1 else's fault except his own.
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I would have hoped that Bluelighters were enlightened enough to show some compassion for others - yes, this man's actions were fool-hardy - but it's almost inevitable that there was something in his life which drove him to such excess - and also have a thought for those that he left behind.
Let's not be too quick to judge - 'There is little benefit to be found in examining the faults of others, while there is every benefit to examine one's own faults'.
 
Shit - I wonder if he was doing the 24pills:24hr challenge? Maybe he was running out of time?
 
Smyth said:
that is unfortunate for him since i would not bet on it being a suicide bid even though it looks like shear crazyness. but that is what, 1.5g mdma in those pills. what is the LD50 anybody?
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An estimated 6000mg IIRC...
 
I'm guessing the LD50 for HUMANS is probably closer to 1-2 grams if taken all at once in a non-tolerant person. There are no actual experimental LD50 results for humans, just rats and the like (which are much more resistant to poisoning.)
 
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