Chloroquine and diazepam for her last sleep.

The development of the Internet throughout the past two decades has led to a gigantic increase of easily accessible information. The present case shows that suicidal people search the Internet for their favoured suicide method. The present case involves a suicidal intoxication with chloroquine and diazepam. Suicides with chloroquine are fairly older than the Internet. A publication dating from 1963 reported several suicidal chloroquine intoxications occuring in the French-speaking part of Western Europe and concluded that the popularity of this suicide method was based on the fact that a lot of French soldiers were infected with malaria on overseas assignments. After discharge they were supplied with large amounts of chloroquine for self-medication. In the past 20 years, lethal suicide cases with chloroquine were reported by several authors. The applied dose was between 5 and 7.5 g of chloroquine. In some cases death could be avoided by emergencymedicine. Messant et al. described a casewhere an intoxication with 10 g of chloroquine was survived. Homicide cases involving chloroquine were published by Pöhlmann and Kijewski and Dimaio and Henry.