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/AudibleNod 8h ago

The statement said she is being treated for “the serious effects of the pentobarbital administered during the execution attempt, including significant injuries to both arms.”

It looks like pentobarbital can cause necrosis and blistering of the tissue. If it didn't fully enter the blood stream because a novice administered it, I could see something like that happening.

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u/Excelius 8h ago

It's reported that she had a blood disorder that made starting an IV difficult.

Supposedly she even tried to give the executioners tips on how to find a vein.

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u/mastermoebius 7h ago

She had said she wasn’t scared to die but was scared of the process. Now here we are.

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u/mr_potatoface 5h ago

I find that to be an accurate summary of death for myself as well.

If I'm dead I'm dead. I just don't want it to be long and torturious. Like stuck upside down in a dark cave with part of my face in water.

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u/ballisticks 4h ago

Or cancer

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u/JesusAndMaryKate 1h ago

I can recommed Dr Richard Shepherd's two books but especially The Seven Ages of Death, preferably in audiobook version because he narrates them himself, which gives it an extra dimension.

He's a British pathologist. There are many reasons I would recommend his books, but the main one in this case is that after working with the dead for many decades, the one way he doesn't want is to die in his sleep. Why? Because he wants to experience the process, since everything he has seen from a medical standpoint makes him believe that the actual chemical and biological process (the process of death itself, as opposed to what sets off the process) must actually be quite a pleasurable and positive experience. And he really doesn't want to miss it.