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=== Use in suicides === A chemist {{who?|date=March 2024}} swallowed {{convert|.00424|oz|g}} of parathion {{when?|date=March 2024}} to find the most lethal means of exposure to humans, intending to take an antidote afterwards, but was paralyzed and so died before he could reach it.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Carson |first=Rachel |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1346358856 |title=Silent Spring |publisher= HarperCollins|year=1962 |isbn=978-0-547-52762-8 |oclc=1346358856}}</ref> Parathion was commonly used for suicides in the 1950s and 1960s.<ref name=":0" />
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