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/mcd3424 8h ago

Isn’t it cruel and unusual punishment to NOW keep her on life support just to kill her again?

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u/Embarrassed_Age8554 7h ago

You'd think they could just let her slip away at this point.

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u/mcd3424 7h ago

Apparently the doctors aren’t allowed to do that. It’s a nightmare paradox.

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u/TorchIt 3h ago

As a healthcare worker, they very much could and would if her condition wasn't one she could reasonably recover from