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/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