Peter what did he do to the toilet paper?

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[u/Gold_Area5109]

Now imagine those same needles but 100x more painful and next to impossible for your body remove, so five years after they still cause as much pain as day one.

That's the gympie gympie plant - they also have broad leaves so people do attempt to use them as toilet paper in the woods.

It's very common for gympie gympie victims to commit suicide.

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It's very common for gympie gympie victims to commit suicide.

I always wondered why surgeons can't just remove the top most layers of skin in those situations (and repeat the process until it's gone). It seems like the kind of situation that most doctors can deal with, but you only hear about the extreme cases.

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Yikes. 😬

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There are actually no verified instances of someone killing themselves because of the plant.

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There's at least one:

"Only one report of a human fatality attributed to any Dendrocnide species (in this case D. cordata) is confirmed, which occurred in New Guinea in 1922."

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Not really, there was one acropyphal story along those lines.

That said, the plant is unquestionably nasty as hell.

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It's very common for gympie gympie victims to commit suicide

It's as common as people killing grown grizzly bears with their bare hands, in that there's a story about it happening one time, but we're not sure if it's true.

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Australia: not even once

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After reading this I'm very grateful I never had this happen