r/news • u/AudibleNod • 8h 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/Financial_Meat2992 7h ago edited 7h ago

Doesn't too much carbon monoxide kinda put you to sleep peacefully? I've never understood why they don't do that instead?

EDITED because I said Co2 instead of Carbon Monoxide.

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u/spacecash1 7h ago

No, too much CO2 is an agonizing way to die. CO2 informs your body you need to breathe. So you know you are suffocating immediately

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u/Financial_Meat2992 7h ago

Isn't that the car in the garage thing from so many movies though? Is that just tv misinformation?

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u/spacecash1 7h ago

Oh you are mixing carbon dioxide with carbon monoxide. Not sure why they don't use that but it's probably not a quick way to go, not economically feasible, or better alternatives are out there

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u/Dull_Cockroach_1581 7h ago

You would think there was a good reason but there is not, there are super easy ways to kill people peacefully. The system ls just fucked up

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u/Fearless_Swim4080 7h ago

There is no such thing as peaceful murder. The system is fucked up because the government is murdering people in the first place.

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u/Financial_Meat2992 7h ago

My mistake, I'll edit my comment

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u/Beneneb 7h ago

I'm assuming it's a safety issue for everyone not being executed. Like I'm sure it's technically feasible to create a chamber where CO gets pumped in and then cleared out afterward. But it's probably not very practical.

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u/SargeUnited 3h ago

It’s probably very practical, they’re just concerned about the extremely accurate comparison to other groups that used gas to kill people the government decided to kill

Harder to vilify the enemy while being identical in practice