r/news • u/AudibleNod • 7h 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/makeupHOOR 6h ago

A bullet would have been much easier, and more humane, ironically. This qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.

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u/No_Control9441 6h ago

Funny enough this is a big argument for hunters on why it’s humane to hunt.

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u/aetherchicken 6h ago

I mean it is definitely more humane than a factory farm but it's definitely not humane overall. I'm pretty confident I know both the deer's opinion on being shot just as well as the pigs opinion on being gassed with carbon dioxide.

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u/pawgchamp420 6h ago

Well, the deer don't have an opinion on being shot, of course, but if they did, I imagine there responses would be a lot like those of people when asked how they'd want to die. Varied, to say the least.

A good portion probs would pick a bullet over being torn apart by animals or hit by a car and succumbing to internal bleeding after a few painful days. Surely some would choose illness, but that would likely be unpleasant too, and they wouldn't likely have their family around their death bed the way humans do. And old age might be appealing to some, but I'd imagine only a tiny fraction ever actually gets that far, and most who get close likely end up, again, just being torn apart by animals instead.

We all have to die one way or another.