Death of a Biohacker

(nytimes.com)

26 points | by jcfrei 2138 days ago

5 comments

  • weavie 2138 days ago
    Taking ketamine in a sensory deprivation tank really doesn't sound like a sensible idea to me.
    • MichaelAO 2138 days ago
      You're probably aware of John C. Lilly, if not worth reading some of his work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly#Exploration_of_h...
      • weavie 2138 days ago
        I wasn't! So he's the guy that developed the sensory deprivation tank, and then started using them to take psychedelics in. Thanks for mentioning it, I never realised there was a link.
        • dekhn 2137 days ago
          and that's not even including the part about talking with dolphins
  • craftyguy 2138 days ago
    > She thought it likely that he had taken the drug, lost consciousness in the tank and drowned.

    Why no autopsy?

  • undercover123 2138 days ago
    TLDR: Idiot called himself biohacker, took unrelated illicit drugs, died. Big drama.
  • callesgg 2138 days ago
    The article reads more like the death of a lying, scheming drug addict.
    • John_KZ 2138 days ago
      Most of the few biohackers I've come across are mentally ill or otherwise reckless and dangerous. I hate being against open knowledge-building, but a world where real viruses are build, modified and transmitted in a similar way to computer viruses is a world I don't want to live in.
      • kuiperPunk 2138 days ago
        Eh, most "biohackers" are just body piercng enthusiasts to The EXTREEEMMME!!!
      • someonewhocar3s 2137 days ago
        You'll likely be amazed at how many Americans would defend 'the freedom to ruin it for others', quite like asbestos was clearly a bad idea very much before its use was ceased.

        Typically the US only understands two paths: free, or not. So either we get all these nasty virii both in government labs, and at home, and likely all sorts of places, or we just leave it at the government labs and when we all (or specific groups of people, as one can target specific genes nowadays) die nobody will know why but whatever.

    • dang 2138 days ago
      Even if so, please don't post unsubstantive or ranty comments here.