The cheaper you buy the fish the less carefully they prepare and the greater the risk of poisoning.
The poison paralyzes its victims but leaves them fully conscious.
see 2:12 to 2:14 in video I linked.
I take it back, there may not be a full death but instead you might be paralyzed for life from eating Japanese pufferfish.
Don't do it.
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