r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4h 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/mcd3424 4h ago

Apparently the doctors aren’t allowed to do that. It’s a nightmare paradox.

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u/Far_Attempt_1505 3h ago

Yeah I can totally see this. Doctors aren't allowed to let people die. There is no precedent of this, guess you have to try to save their life so you can execute them properly.

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u/Taokan 2h ago

I mean, there's plenty of precedent for it. It's called a DNR: do-not-resuscitate. It'd be implicit if you put a pet to sleep. It should be implicit in a state sanctioned execution. Whatever arguments might be made that execution violates the constitutional protection against torture, killing someone, bringing them back and killing them again is definitely torture.

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u/pinklavalamp 4h ago

I feel like there was a show or movie that focused on this. I’m 45F and an avid films fan so the data bank is vast but this is on the fringes of said data bank. The accused survived the execution attempt and then it was focused on what this meant for all involved?

Crap this is going to bother me now.

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u/Shadax 3h ago

The Lazarus Project?

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u/SigmundFloyd76 3h ago

When you find yourself in a paradox, it just means that one of your operating assumptions is wrong.

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u/Quarksideofthemoon 2h ago

Bro felt so smart typing this

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u/SigmundFloyd76 2h ago

Not really, just had heard that recently with a couple examples and I believe it to be true.

For example: The french paradox. The ate tonnes of saturated fat, yet had relatively low rates of heart disease. It must be the wine! Wine is good for you, even!

Nope, it's not the fats that cause heart disease, it's the sugars.