The only choice I had was to go through with the deception or take poison.

Am I to be held responsible because he was tired of life and took poison?

They took poison before I could get anything out of them.

I started to get close to asking questions, and he took poison.

He was found dead four days later, having committed suicide by taking poison.

I mean, sentencing people to take poison for doing things that really aren't so bad, you know?

To avoid punishment he is said to have taken poison.

"Would you really have taken poison rather than go with him?"

"But he took poison before I could get to him."

And they're not boiling it, which is the same as taking poison.