I know it sounds cruel, and I know it sounds heartless, but damn, i'm sick of people who ask for cures!
I can't count the number of times somebody has shouted for help, in /shout or in /say. But when I tell them to type /help they won't, because they don't want to lose the exp for it.
They expect you to cure them, but they aren't willing to part with the XP from a mob they shouldn't have been fighting in the first place.
Too many people are getting soft, depending upon random strangers to help them level up.
I've died many a time when I bit off more than I could chew. It was my own fault, I died for it. It sucks, but thats part of the game.
I've died from poison like that aswell. It sucks, but you staging a suicide protest just shows how little you learned.
There is this neat little item, it's fairly cheap, and available to all three nations, even in last place... It's called:
Antidote. They run around 300 gil each, they stack, and they cure poison. If you cannot cure poison yourself, then carry some with you.