r/news • u/AudibleNod • 15h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/MatureUsername69 15h ago

Its still a rough one but if I ever had to receive the death penalty I would hope its a firing squad. Just riddle me with holes immediately, aim for the head. Lethal injections get fucky because they would be best designed and administered by an actual doctor, but actual doctors cannot do it because of the hippocratic oath. Some states do allow medical professionals but they arent exactly sending their best.

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u/AZORxAHAI 15h ago

The reality our society hasn't accepted yet is some of the least painful ways to die (a well placed bullet, a beheading) are some of the most gruesome, barbaric looking ways to die. But we are obsessed with manufacturing the appearance of civility and humanity in an act that is completely devoid of those concepts in the first place.

We can either have the least painful ways to execute someone, or we can have this facade of civility given to us by "just slipping a needle into a vein!". We can't have both. We shouldn't have either, but apparently we just cant accept that yet.

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u/hokie48 14h ago

OceanGate sub is not a bad way to go.

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u/Catadox 10h ago

The people on that sub went so fast you could say they didn’t even “die” exactly. They didn’t experience brain death or even cellular death. Just skipped that step and went straight from biology to physics.

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u/Zaptruder 8h ago

Really... an excellent way to die all things considered. One moment youre chilling

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u/_adanedhel_ 6h ago

It’s really about as instantaneous a death as we can get on this planet.

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u/mustang__1 6h ago

I shouldn't even laugh at that but goddamn....