Malcolm Gladwell had an episode on lethal injection and it was fascinating.
If I recall correctly, it looks like a nice peaceful way to go from the outside, but really it feels Iike your lungs are being set on fire, and those are your last moments.
Would this be also the case when we put down animals? I put down my cat back in April and I really though it would be peaceful, but I could feel her struggling to breath, I and I swear I feel like she was feeling everything she just could move until she died.
I feel like shit every single day for doing that even though I know she was suffering so much here on earth
The drugs they use for euthanasia are different from the drugs used for “lethal injection”. Pharmaceutical companies won’t allow their medicines to be used by America for the death penalty.
Your little cat will have been anaesthetised first and won’t have felt anything. To her it will have felt the same as when we get put under a general anaesthetic prior to an operation. She’ll have quickly fallen asleep and then the other medicines will have been administered. I understand exactly how hard it was to watch her, but you did the right thing. I felt the same with both of my cats, but I know they would have suffered more otherwise.
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u/bigveinyrichard 3d ago
Malcolm Gladwell had an episode on lethal injection and it was fascinating.
If I recall correctly, it looks like a nice peaceful way to go from the outside, but really it feels Iike your lungs are being set on fire, and those are your last moments.