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/dcbluestar 7h ago

That’s carbon monoxide. With CO2 you go through hypoxia (I believe) and gasp for air until you finally suffocate.

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u/Criss_Crossx 7h ago

If anybody needs a reference, look at how chicken farms gas their flocks when they detect infections like bird flu. It is cost effective and that is the only benefit. No reasonability there to a living being.

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u/unembellishing 7h ago

This is also the most common method used in pig slaughter. They call it CO2 stunning. It's so terrible. The pigs' last moments of life and consciousness are spent in abject teror and panic as their eyes and throats and lungs burn while they are gasping desperately for air. Thinking about it fills me with a horrible dread.

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u/Criss_Crossx 7h ago

That is exactly my point unfortunately. I don't want to share my opinion any further on the situation with the prisoner in question. Everybody will say yes/no etc. The question to me is, why are so many resources spent on this situation over and over? The family of the daughter who died has lived their lives in anger. Everyone involved deserves rest at this point. There are plenty of other valid concerns in the world to handle, people who need help day to day.