An Edisonian (try everything, like Edison did when searching for the perfect incandescent light bulb filament) approach to self-medication seems to be an expensive, dangerous, time-consuming and low-yield approach to addressing problems that may, in fact, transcend the physical body.

The only plus I see is your corpse becoming impervious to decomposition, providing a post-life career as the Amazing Mummy Man in traveling freak shows. And as the fellow cleaning up after the elephants in the circus said, hey, at least you’re in show business.