Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by stickfigure 1840 days ago
That sounds very consistent with her husband's (Alltounian's) conviction that she committed suicide. I'm not sure what this says about the dangers of ketamine, especially considering that ketamine seems to mitigate suicidal ideation.

I had never heard this person's name before today, but I can easily imagine a different narrative: She was self-medicating for depression and might not have lasted as long as she did without the drug. Sounds like we'll never know.

1 comments

A low dose has anti-depressive effects, but these are much larger doses. According to her husband she was addicted, and on Erowid there are reports of people getting addicted to it: https://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Ketamine_Addicti...

Regarding suicide people could get strange ideas due to ketamine, perhaps it's accidental death - perhaps she wanted to try the biggest dose to get the ultimate revelation and while being in the so called K-hole, the cold got her.

Like a few unlucky souls experimenting with psychedelics, they want to fly to close to the sun and fall down. Zoe7.

Ketamine or psychedelic use can be a form of self-medication. But you'd think that if she had depression it was written about after her death or mentioned in one of her books or articles