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by User23 1675 days ago
A steam bath was considered to be one of the most painless forms of suicide for Roman patricians.
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I have just heard about Seneca dying in a stem bath, but that was more by accident (he committed suicide by cutting his wrists but that was taking too long so he wanted the heat to speed up blood extraction. He however died of suffocation)

How was that suicide supposed to work? (suffocation like Seneca did?)