Killing one's own self by mixing common household products to produce hydrogen sulfide gas. Based on the Japanese technique which used detergent as an ingredient.
Detergent suicide is quickly replacing carbon monoxide poisoning as Japan's preferred suicide method and is slowly catching on in the United States.
2. On the street, the above is sometimes mixed with, or substituted for, drugs. Household detergent is chosen because it is an inexpensive and can be found in a white powder.
"Yo, that mutha fucka on the corner be cuttin his shit wit' detergent!"
"The problem became increasingly urgent, since the product was nothin' but bags of detergent."
-The Gza
"So Owen every morning before he sell dope
Niggaz keep whoopin' that ass cause he sell soap. "