Why do people take thier shoes off before commiting suicide?

How could you find out if that advice is based in scientific evidence?

When trimming plants and vines: a. burn all the poisonous plants b. touch poison oak and poison sumac with your bare hands c. wear gloves d. cut as quickly as possible

Hiv is inactivated in the laboratory after a few minutes of sitting at room temperature, but the flu virus is still active after sitting for several hours. what are the practical consequences of these findings? a) hiv can be transmitted more easily from person to person than the flu virusb) the flu virus can be transmitted more easily from person to person than hivc) this property of hiv makes it more likely to be a pandemic than the flu virusd) disinfecting surfaces is more important to reduce the spread of hiv than the flu