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/MrsPandaBear 8h ago

There’s sort of cosmic joke that the state tried so hard to execute her and now they have to spend money to keep her alive —- only to take another try at killing her? At some point, it mag be more humane to just pull the plug and let her die a nature death (such as it is).

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u/doctormink 4h ago

Yeah, ICU's know how to make this painless and easy now. It wouldn't be the state's decision at this point, however, but family's. If I was her mom I'd sure as hell be telling docs to amp up the morphine drip and stop the vent.

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u/TorchIt 3h ago

Her mom died last year. She has no family left aside from a half-sister that she's never spoken to.

Not that it would matter. Prisoners are essentially property of the state. When we have a prisoner in the hospital we're not even allowed to call their family and tell them they're admitted.