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Switzerland Approves Assisted ‘Suicide Capsule’ [According to liberals, nitrogen asphyxiation is too painful to use in executions, but is completely painless when used for assisted suicide]
Daily Beast via yahoo.com ^ | December 6, 2021 | Barbie Latza Nadeau

Posted on 12/06/2021 12:38:41 PM PST by grundle

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This article doesn't mention execution. However, liberals have always said that nitrogen asphyxiation was too painful to use in executions. But in the real world, it's actually completely painless, and liberals have no objection to using it for assisted suicide.
1 posted on 12/06/2021 12:38:41 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

What would a libertarian say?


2 posted on 12/06/2021 12:41:52 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: grundle

Dual-purposed as quarantine for the unvaxed.


3 posted on 12/06/2021 12:43:29 PM PST by fruser1
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I am trying to get a visual, a mind picture of what they’re discussing, but my screen remains a blank. I went to Yahoo and they have nothing but a weed garden of clickbaits.
Maybe this is nothing but a theory being proposed for now.


4 posted on 12/06/2021 12:43:35 PM PST by lee martell
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To: grundle

politics aside (because lefty hypocrisy is never shocking anymore), why would hypoxia be “comfortable”?


5 posted on 12/06/2021 12:45:18 PM PST by z3n (“If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.” -Charlemagne)
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The Swiss have lost their moral compass. They have embraced the culture of death.


6 posted on 12/06/2021 12:46:17 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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The victims of these criminals were unavailable for comment.


7 posted on 12/06/2021 12:46:33 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: lee martell

That feeling of suffocation you feel when you’re not getting fresh air, comes from CO2 buildup in your blood. Your body can sense excess CO2, but is not designed to detect lack of oxygen.

If you breath in pure nitrogen, you will fade out and die without discomfort.


8 posted on 12/06/2021 12:47:32 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Only the insane have the strength to prosper. Only those who prosper truly judge what is sane)
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To: grundle

A suicide group that puts out a “how to” suggested nitrogen from balloon blowing tanks. I forget the specifics. But it didn’t imply that it was a horrible method. Still remember trying to keep a quiet face during the conversation with my friend. Who, luckily, hasn’t chosen yet to go that route. Hoping she never does.


9 posted on 12/06/2021 12:50:27 PM PST by mairdie (Winter Birds - 1993 - https://youtu.be/XBkqOxMNP4E)
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To: lee martell

https://gizmodo.com/controversial-assisted-suicide-pod-cleared-for-use-in-s-1848167349


10 posted on 12/06/2021 12:52:29 PM PST by buckalfa (I have forgotten more than I ever knew.)
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Oh, there it is. Thanks.
Kind of small and narrow, but I guess it’s not necessarily built for comfort.

Kind of ironic that one of the inventors for this is named Phillip Nitschke.
A German philosopher with a slightly different spelling was named Friedrich Nietzsche.
One of Nietzsche’s sayings was
“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger!”


11 posted on 12/06/2021 1:01:41 PM PST by lee martell
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Yeah, NASA has lost a couple of people who entered rocket fuel tanks which had (unbeknownst to them) been purged with nitrogen. They don’t even realize they’re in trouble, they just fall asleep and don’t wake up.


12 posted on 12/06/2021 1:06:08 PM PST by Campion (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
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To: grundle

Veterinaries use a twilight sleep, then a overdose of IV Calcium. No Pain, so why not the same for those on Death Rows?


13 posted on 12/06/2021 1:23:57 PM PST by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger!”

I believed this as a young man, but now that I’m old....
I think that which does not kill us, most of the time hurts really bad.


14 posted on 12/06/2021 1:24:50 PM PST by centermass_socrates (Look into a conservative and see hope and virtue, look in a liberal and you only see meat.)
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I think that people contemplating assisted suicide should be flown to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Zone in China.


15 posted on 12/06/2021 1:28:19 PM PST by Frohickey
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16 posted on 12/06/2021 1:30:00 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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My health is in decline and my faith has allowed me to no longer be fearful of death. Yet I have no desire to hasten the end.


17 posted on 12/06/2021 1:35:19 PM PST by buckalfa (I have forgotten more than I ever knew.)
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To: grundle
As usual, the Liberals state only half the facts. If the execution chamber is not properly vented, and/or the in-chamber atmosphere is not circulated by a fan, the person being executed suffers pain from carbon dioxide build-up around his or her head.

Those people who commit homemade suicide by helium or nitrogen avoid this by having a tight-fitting mask, which, at a high enough gas volume, causes exhaled CO2 to be blown out of the mask so the suicide can't inhale any CO2 he/she just exhaled.

18 posted on 12/06/2021 1:37:50 PM PST by asinclair
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Veterinaries use a twilight sleep, then a overdose of IV Calcium. No Pain, so why not the same for those on Death Rows?

judges and governors love last minute reprieves, so the execution has to be healthy, healthy, healthy, dead. No judge wants to be told that the executee is still alive but there is no way to stop the execution or even if you could stop it he would be permanently brain damaged from the barbiturate overdose. Thus the method has to be heart attack inducing rather than slowly drifting off to sleep and dead a few minutes later.

For the instant death, the guillotine was probably the best with just a second or two between pulling the lever and catching the head in a basket.

19 posted on 12/06/2021 2:39:50 PM PST by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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My guess is a windowed box that allows you to increase the nitrogen atmosphere content. Climb in, lock it, turn the knobs on the inside. Poof. Done. Nice way to die actually. Way too humane for prison execution. Chipper shredder feet first slowly is what most deserve.

Speaking of humane death row. Just offer most unlimited heroin mixed with fentanyl and 90% will OD in 6 months or less.


20 posted on 12/06/2021 3:18:39 PM PST by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrativel)
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