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brainwadtoday at 10:30 AM0 repliesview on HN

> Oh right - that's probably what we did, buy a big pack from behind the counter.

No, when you visited they were still on the shelf. They only put them behind the counter in 2025.

> sometimes just adding a tiny bit of friction when someone's trying to kill themselves might save a life

I'm philosophically not for making suicide harder. If someone wants to die, that's their right. And practically, while you might be able to show a stat-sig decrease in paracetamol poisoning, I'd expect the suicides to largely just move to other methods.