Walter White Breaking Bad

Breaking bad is based on a chemistry teacher, Walter White, who is diagnosed with stage III cancer and given only two years to live, with time now limited, he decides to make dramatic changes to his life. He lives with his teenage son, and his wife in New Mexico. Determined to ensure that his family will have a secure future, Walt embarks on a career of drugs and crime. He proves to be remarkably proficient in this new world as he begins manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with one of his former students. The series tracks the impacts of a fatal diagnosis on a regular, hard working man, and explores how a fatal diagnosis affects his morality and transforms him into a major player of the drug trade. What makes the show fascinating is
Even though it is not the fastest- acting method of killing. Walt prefers it because it leaves behind little or no trace of its use on a victim. Ricin is a naturally occurring protein derived from the beans of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis. Ricin is highly poisonous if inhaled or injected, but less so when ingested. When inhaled or injected, just a few grains of it can kill an adult, due to its high toxicity: refining the pulp of as few as eight beans can create a dangerous amount of ricin. The median lethal dose is roughly 22 micrograms per kilograms in humans. It was famously used to assassinate Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov; in 1978, the KGB injected him with a modified umbrella which injected a tiny pellet dosed with ricin into his bloodstream. The poison acts by inhibiting protein synthesis in ribosomes, causing widespread cell death in numerous organic systems. It is resistant, but not impervious, to digestion by peptidases. Ingesting ricin is much less lethal, requiring on the order of 30 to 40 mg per kilogram. By ingestion, the pathology of ricin is largely restricted to the gastrointestinal tract where it may cause mucosal injuries; with appropriate treatment, most patients will make a fully recovery. Because the symptoms are caused by failure to make the protein, they emerge only after a variable delay from a few hours to a full day after exposure. Ricin causes severe diarrhea and victims can die of shock, Death typically occurs within 3-5 days of the initial exposure (Thornton). Ricin poisoning is not easily detected, but it is not necessarily fatal, even though it is unlikely medical staff would identify the underlying cause. Death usually occurs 36-48 hours after exposure, but if a victim survives a few days, he/she has a good chance of recovering (though he/she will almost certainly have permanent organ damage). If someone uses the poison, it isn’t likely he/she would get caught. Ricin