A mainstream favorite would be the heavy metal arsenic, only downside is that it makes milk turn pink. This can be admitted by a family member starting with a small dosage over months untill he has lost patience and goes in for the kill with a massive one. Another one (albeit implausible) could be the walking ghost phase some people go into after contracting acute radioactive poisoning. They feel fine for 24 hrs upto a week, and then suddenly, and an masse get all of the nasty effects, and die. Hospital bacterium, as in he goes in with something requiring minor surgery and contracts legionella from a contaminated airconditioning where the water inside the airco unit is a nice habitat for this little beast. This may kill your climax thingy however some legionella cases i heard of were discovered after fatality's have been confirmed. Ps iam very sorry but i honestly didnt read your last post even though it's been there an hour before this one has. My bad. Maybe he ate a (raw) egg from a chick that's infected with salmonella? Why go with poisoning when the city enviroment has allot of other neat things to get killed by?
Boy everyone is really getting into bumping off this poor seven year old. Not to mention the fact that everyone is coming up with off the wall ways to do it. How about something simple, like severe burns. Or if your story is based in L.A. or N.Y.C. you could always go with the popular drive by shooting.
On second thought, you could have the kid stub his toe at school, whine about it for a week in the hospital, which finally drives the head nurse over the top. She sneaks into his room and zip ties a plastic bag over his head and then beats his small body with a pillowcase filled with doorknobs and screwdrivers. Just a thought...
You seemed to enjoy coming up with ways to bump off this poor seven year old. And no offense, but they were a bit more violent than the tone requires. lol Thanks anyway though. And I am still open to ideas as I have yet to get to the chapter in which the incident happens so until I get there, any ideas anybody could give me would be a major help.
Sorry to bump. Was doing some research on Peritonitis. It seems to work with everything miraculously well. Just checking to see some things that need clarification. They say it can be fatal if untreated. But how can I spin it into being fatal if they do try to treat it? It was said that if the boy is allergic to penicillin, then it'll make it harder to treat. If I just have the infection be too much to treat due to his allergy to that anti-biotic, is it plausible enough an outcome? Also, it gives a list of symptoms which work very well with the story. Swelling and tenderness in the abdomen with pain ranging from dull aches to severe, sharp pain, Fever and chills, Loss of appetite,Thirst ,Nausea and vomiting, Limited urine output, Inability to pass gas or stool. Now, is it too much to have all or most of these symptoms present? Or should I stick to a select few, say 3-4?
Perhaps they tried to repair the peritoneum, but they missed a small nick or tear, and the infection got out of control. Or maybe his immune response was poor - some kids ar just a bit frail due to birth defects or childhood illnesses. They might not know that he's allergic to pennicillin until they use it and he reacts poorly. Meanwhile the infection gets worse, and he has been weakened by the allergic reaction.
The already weak immune system sounds like it would work the best for me since I don't know much about allergic reactions. If that can do it, I think it's best to keep it simple rather than layer an allergic reaction on top of what's there. As for the symptoms, is using them all overkill?
That would have to be a heck of a pencil, to get past his skin, fat, and muscle layers. Might I suggest he was running with scissors, instead? See if it is common to develop all of the symptoms, (sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't) and have them develop gradually, which is more likely than all of them showing up at once.
Well, having somebody stab him with sharp scissors works. lol Probably makes it a bit more believable too. Thanks for the tip. Hmmm, was looking, can't find much on how frequent the symptoms are. I was thinking about doing it in a small time skip form where they see one symptom develop and over the course of the night, he gradually develops more until they got a diagnosis ready in the morning.
My daughter nearly died when her intestine perforated. They don't know how it happened and from being perfectly healthy she was given hours to live in a space of 3 days. Next to her in the ICU was a kid that had swallowed a pin when he was doing a school project. He'd coughed when he was holding the pin in his mouth. It had travelled around for a bit and then got stuck in a place too deep for them to operate. Luckily it moved, but sometimes even a tiny object can perforate the heart/cause infection and kill.
I think his point was that a pencil might not be able to penetrate it's way through all the skin and muscle and such. If the kid swallowed the pin, then it didn't have to penetrate skin, because it already bypassed it. IMO, scissors might be a tab more believable for this scenario.
If he were pushed or fell, some pointed object (pencil, pen, scissors, nail, tree branch) could be driven into his abdomen. But I like the idea of something swallowed. For that matter, if someone put a piece of glass, or a piece of a razor blade, in his food as a mean prank, you could also explore the prankster's guilt as your kid gets sicker and finally dies.
Hmmm, putting something in his food. I am not sure how to do that without him knowing. I don't know, I am not sure. It could work, but IDK how I'd initiate it. So far, I do like the idea of falling onto a pair of scissors. It seems like it might be easier to happen than have somebody sneak a razor blade into his food. I'll keep an open mind until I get to the chapter though.
Two words: cafeteria lunch. I don't know about your school, but the lunchrooms were often total chaos. One kid could easily tamper with his own lunch plate and swap it with your kid's plate; or just ham the obect into the mashed potatoes or macaroni and cheese when no one is looking (everyone is watching some other poor soul who was tripped carrying a full tray, or a food fight in the corner). The victim might wolf down his food and never notice the foreign object at the time, and it could be a day or so before the kid shows any symptoms.
I guess that could work. Well, my school didn't have that problem. Hmmm, it could work. IDK! I'm still considering him falling on scissors when pushed down by a bully. The effects would make for more immediate drama. But I am definitely loving the peritonitis idea. I've researched it on multiple sites and it seems to work perfectly with the story. And if he's allergic to the antibiotic, it also works even better to ensure his death.
I haven't taken the time to read all of the post, but when I was seven (I think in second grade) I fell off the monkey bars at recess. Well, it wasn't exactly the monkey bars, more like a bar you could spin on and do flips. I was playing with my friend when I fell off. I hit my head on a rock and had to go to the doctors (for some stupid reason the school had rocks mixed in with its mulch). This accident was nowhere near fatal or was I close to needing to go to a hospital. Still, at that age, kids are always hurting themselves at recess. This could be a possibilty in your story.
