Qin Shi Huang was obsessed with immortality and his death may have been hastened by the concoctions his alchemists made him that...
Qin Shi Huang was obsessed with immortality and his death may have been hastened by the concoctions his alchemists made him that had lots of mercury in them (in fact a lot of Chinese emperors got offed this way) and you know sometimes i think the taoists knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote that a concoction of arsenic, mercury, and gold would make the drinker immortal