Death By Caffeine?
I recently ran across this website called Energy Fiend that will tell you exactly how much of a given caffeinated beverage it would take to kill you.
The site asks you to pick your poison from a huge list of commercially available caffeinated drinks such as Coke, Red Bull, and coffee in its various forms (drip, espresso, etc.). Then you put in your body weight in lbs or kg, submit, and the site calculates how much of the given beverage it would take to reach the LD50 of about 13 grams of pure caffeine. LD50 is the term for “lethal dose”, determined by how much of a substance it would take to have a survivability rate of 50% or lower even with prompt medical attention.
As it turns out, it would take exactly 146.25 shots of espresso to send me to that great Espresso Vivace stand in the sky. How ’bout you?
I can’t believe it would take only 95 cups of coffee to do me in. That’s actually doable. It could happen. I’d better be more careful.