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> Phillip S. Peek:
> > Brutus' wife Porcia is said to have commited suicide by swallowing hot
> > coals (Plutarch, Brutus, 53). Anyone know of other examples of someone who
> > is said to have commited suicide in the same way?


   I recall reading at one time that the Persian Darius Ochus (Nothus)
mandated choking by ashes as a Persian punishment.  And not really an
analagous death, but Caius Proculeius Varro committed suicide by
drinking white lime or plaster (I couldn't shake this recollection at
the time I went for an upper GI).   EJM
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