Non-binarily dying suddenly: Autopsies cannot discern suicide
But obviously, other physical evidence can
Yesterday, the medical examiner’s office of Oklahoma released the autopsy report for Dagny (“Dex”) Ellis Benedict, who died last month, aged 16, the day after a fight at school.
Dagny’s death was briefly, nearly contorted into a messianic episode due to her (“their”) self-asserted “nonbinary” status. After all, nonbinary teenagers, by magical properties that do not apply to other kids, can only become involved in physical conflicts due to anti-LGBTQ hate; and further, they can only die due to the same physical conflicts, even if such deaths occur the day after, despite the same individuals appearing hale in a post-fight interview recorded on police body-cam.
As a result of these immutable laws of reality, civil rights advocates concluded Dagny had succumbed to violent bullying for her self-asserted nonbinary status.
In contrast, the police for Owasso, Oklahoma, prudently refused to express their opinion on the cause of Dagny’s death until yesterday. But now they have revealed that their suspicion leaned toward suicide. Presumably this suspicion was based on physical evidence present at the scene, though as far as I can discern they have not described the same evidence. In other words, I presume it to exist, but it may not. It could be that Dagny was simply found dead with absolutely no clues as to why this was so.
This bring us to the development which the Owasso police department used to justify finally disclosing their original suspicions of suicide (without explaining the justification for the same, as far as I know) — the report of the Oklahoma medical examiner’s office.
The examiner reports that Dagny probably died by suicide, due to “diphenhydramine and fluoxetine combined toxicity.”
Diphenhydramine is Benadryl; fluoxetine is Prozac. Neither of these drugs are remarkable findings in the blood of a self-declared nonbinary teenager. How would a medical examiner, in other words, come to the conclusion that a teenager had died “from, not with” Benadryl and Prozac, medically?
The answer is that there is absolutely no way. Prozac (fluoxetine) enjoys a primary half-life in the blood of up to 4 days; and up to 10 days for the secondary metabolite (norfluoxetine). Labcorp acknowledges as much in their relevant test sheets:
Fluoxetine is well absorbed after oral administration, whether or not food is present, and peak plasma concentrations are attained six to eight hours after a dose. Steady-state plasma concentrations are reached after two to four weeks.
There would be no way for a medical examiner to discern medically that current levels of either fluoxetine or norfluoxetine were the result of suicidal intent rather than chronic use — even a high ratio of the former to the latter could be the result of an increase in use occurring days before death. What’s more, death is not considered as a hazard of Prozac overdose to begin with.
Benadryl, a sedative, is more obviously plausible as a vehicle for suicide. It has a short serum half-life of 3 to 9 hours, and was tied to two deaths when overdosing became fashionable as part of a Tik-Tok challenge in 2020 (wikipedia). But there are still plot holes to be found here. Is it really so plausible that Dagny was both aware that Benadryl could be lethal in rare cases; and lucky enough to become such a rare case? Is it plausible that anyone sincerely wanting to end their life would trust Benadryl to do the job to begin with? Is it credible that the medical examiner really found anything about Dagny’s blood levels of Benadryl to warrant even suggesting a link, given the simultaneous mention of Prozac, which is constantly present in the blood of prescription users anyway? And finally, how do we know either one of these results were not merely false positives?
The answer to all of these questions can only be: Other physical evidence found by the police at the scene.
Absent, for example, a suicide note, it is actually rather absurd to take the presence of Benadryl and Prozac in Dagny’s blood as relevant to her passing. In other words, there is no medical evidence that Dagny committed suicide — there are only anodyne chemical observations presumably layered overtop more relevant physical evidence from her home.
We know, therefore, that despite the medical examiner’s report, nothing medical rules out the possibility that Dagny in fact died with, not “from” Benadryl and Prozac.
In which case, what basis is there for concluding that Dagny is not the latest case of a young person “dying suddenly”? As I have discussed before, there is little physiological basis for distinguishing spontaneous cardiac arrest from cardiac arrest as the result of some particular acute insult — for the most part, this distinction, i.e. “Joe is having a heart attack,” can only be made on clinical grounds, which requires observation of the deceased before they are dead.
When Gwen Casten died in the summer of 2022, she left no actual physiological evidence to justify the eventual coroner’s report of “sudden cardiac arrhythmia” as opposed to sudden cardiac arrest without arrhythmia. All the coroner knew was that the heart was dead now. Had Benadryl or Prozac been found in Casten’s blood, a conclusion of “suicide” would have been just as “justified” as it is here for Dagny — but not because of any actual facts about how Casten had died.
Dagny, a self-described nonbinary teenager who likely would have gotten Covid vaccines to prove that “Science Will Win,” may have died of a “golden ticket” Benadryl overdose, or may have merely died suddenly while still having relatively normal levels of Benadryl (and Prozac) in her blood. Chemical tests do not provide the answer to this.
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Prozac and the other SSRIs are known to impair the libido and frequently destroy the ability to climax in both men and women. And the sexual responses are often permanently destroyed by these meds. It's possible that a child born to a mother on SSRIs may develop into an "asexual" and in today's idiom, non-binary person.
The jab may have struck again and no authorities will look into her medical history to see if she was jabbed. And of course, no one will do the proper staining needed to look for spike proteins where they don’t belong.