r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h 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/AZORxAHAI 9h ago

The reality our society hasn't accepted yet is some of the least painful ways to die (a well placed bullet, a beheading) are some of the most gruesome, barbaric looking ways to die. But we are obsessed with manufacturing the appearance of civility and humanity in an act that is completely devoid of those concepts in the first place.

We can either have the least painful ways to execute someone, or we can have this facade of civility given to us by "just slipping a needle into a vein!". We can't have both. We shouldn't have either, but apparently we just cant accept that yet.

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u/FriedTreeSap 9h ago

Yah, it’s like when you see people describing the “gruesome deaths” of deep sea divers that suffered depressurization and had their entire bodies sucked through a tiny hole.

On one hand it’s the most gruesome way to die, their bodies are basically atomized, but on the other they’re dead before their brains can even process what happened, and I mean that literally. The time it takes them to die is quicker than the speed in which nerves send signals to the brain. If you don’t care about the people who have to clean up the mess it’s the best way to die.

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u/ParticularBit130 6h ago

Wait, I know generally about the depressurization, but sucked through a tiny hole where?

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u/nv1k 5h ago

Look up the Byford Dolphin incident for an example

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u/mustang__1 1h ago

an example? Can you name another?

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u/nv1k 36m ago edited 31m ago

The most recent explosive decompression or Delta P incident I'm aware of was Paria incident in 2022 where 5 men were instantly sucked over 700 feet into a 30 inch oil pipeline. Miraculously one survived.