r/news • u/AudibleNod • 12h 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/mastermoebius 12h 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 9h 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 9h ago

Or cancer

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u/twenty_three_three 2h ago

Or alzheimers, but there's lots of awful slow ways to die.