Lemonparty Patreon 171 - Long Racist Winter P.2

Story of the only Indian guy to take Cyanide for suicide in India and tell us what it tastes like:

MP Prasad was only 32 years old when he was conned and lost a small fortune. The goldsmith in Palakkad died by suicide in 2006 but that’s not the reason he became posthumously famous. Prasad is reportedly the only person to have documented the taste of Potassium Cyanide, the poison that was supposed to kill one instantly, before dying. Fourteen years later, his story became part of a Chilean writer’s book that got shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize – When We Cease to Understand The World, by Benjamin Labatut.

"The effects of cyanide are so swift that there is but one historical account of its flavour, left behind in the early twenty-first century by MP Prasad, an Indian goldsmith, thirty-two years old, who managed to write three lines after swallowing it: “Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid,” said the note found next to his body in the hotel room he had rented for the purpose of taking his own life."

I forgot to add that Fritz Haber was jewish and Einstein hated him and his wife killed herself in the garden because he simply loved the gas too much. Sad, shot through the heart, haunted forever