If governments are always looking for more humane methods of execution, why are heroin and other opiates never used, since they are supposedly the most blissful way to pass?
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Because they’re not blissful. You don’t die from “overdose”.
You die from asphyxiation. Which is extremely painful and can be very ugly to watch. Fortunately, the victim here is typically not feeling any pain, but since pain is subjective and different for everyone, tolerances included, it doesn’t work the same.
To add to this, this is typically how most elderly people who die in the hospital die. When the daughter from California finally comes in and after 2 months of arguing is finally ready to give up on her 108 yr old hospice patient, we let them know we’ll take them off “life support”. Which means well remove the machine that’s doing all the breathing and load them with morphine so as their heart and brain fail from lack of oxygen it’s not super painful. But even with a double digit dose of morphine most patients still buck, gag, choke, and fight to the end. It’s mostly mechanical, the body fighting in any manner it can to survive. But this is how we do end of life in hospitals. The details I’ve shared occur at every hospital in the country countless times per day.
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