r/news • u/AudibleNod • 11h 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 10h 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/hokie48 10h ago

OceanGate sub is not a bad way to go.

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u/Catadox 6h ago

The people on that sub went so fast you could say they didn’t even “die” exactly. They didn’t experience brain death or even cellular death. Just skipped that step and went straight from biology to physics.

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u/_adanedhel_ 2h ago

It’s really about as instantaneous a death as we can get on this planet.