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“There’s no antidote,” said Terrence Delaney, a plant biologist and mycologist at the University of Vermont who studies the toxin profiles of a related mushroom called the destroying angel.

Three mushrooms known as the destroying angel, the deadly dapperling and the funeral bell all have something in common: the fabulously lethal toxin alpha-Amanitin.

There was one called the “destroying angel” that would kill people who ate it so they were absolutely dead in a few days.

Davidson adds that there are plenty of mushrooms that live up to their names, like the destroying angel or the death’s cap. “but then your organs will start failing.”

He defines the destroying angel as “an absence of will, of purpose,” and says, “The feeling that the door is open but we don’t go through it is with us all the time.”