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Is it really 'happy fun time' if you know you're going to die?
Listen to audio recordings of pilots with hypoxia, they understand something is very wrong with the plane, but they also think it's just fine because they're having a great day.
I always think about Destin from Smarter Everyday when I think about hypoxia. He does such a great job at articulating what he experienced and how difficult it was to know what to do in that moment.
I always think of thatt moment when they're like "it's time to put your mask back on or you're going to die destin!" and he just looks at them with a terrified half smile and was barely capable of saying "I don't know what to do..."
Which video was that? Would greatly appreciate a link if you can find it, thank you!
Edit: I believe it was this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfF2MTnqAw
Edit2: Just finsihed that video, holy crap that's a must watch for people. tl;dw, when a plane is cruising at 35,000 feet and the cabin loses oxygen, you have at best 15-30 seconds before you pass out, so when the airlines says mask up first before helping others, it will literally save your life.
Yeah that's the one, I figured with those key words people could easily find it.
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Weirdly enough, it might be. There are videos of people deliberately testing hypoxia. I've seen one where the person controlling the test told the participant "you know you are dying right now, right?" and the participant responded "Oh" with a big smile. Now maybe the participant was more chill because they knew beforehand that they weren't actually going to die. But they were still completely non-phased watching their brain shut down in real time.
I'm opposed to the death penalty. But if I had to choose my own way out of this world? Hypoxia is probably top of the list.
I got a bit hypoxic on top of a mountain. It was 29°F with the wind you'd expect at 14000ft, and I'm just standing there in a t-shirt because I was just so nice and warm, also I was so loopy I could not stop laughing.
Did you die?
Yes, but they got better after.
Phew
Might be trying to delay the execution itself since there is a shortage of the "regular" injection they use because of embargoes?
Completely ignoring that execution is wrong for a number of reasons
Why would you even bring up hunger when human trafficking exists in the world? Shame on you.
Guys, I think I found a solution to both. Hear me out.
What if we feed the trafficked humans to the hungry humans.
Win win. No more trafficked humans and no more hungry humans.
When the original news broke about Alabama using nitrogen, my wife woke me up by hitting my arm to tell me - because I've been saying that is the most humane possible method for the last 16 years.
I think the death penalty is stupid to begin with, and am kinda over talking about its merits after years of debate team in high school and college. But trying all of these seat-of-pants cocktails of midazolam and pentobarbital etc, and then inventing all of these ridiculous devices that require two people to push buttons at the same time so no one ever really knows whose button actually killed the person.... it's just needlessly complicated and dumb. Not to mention the fact that the legal costs involved in defending appeals and housing someone on death row are much higher than the cost of a life sentence anyway. And that's leaving aside the statistically significant number of wrongful convictions...
I mean, we shouldn't have the death penalty. But if we're going to, it should be by nitrogen hypoxia.
I am split - there shouldn't be a death penalty, and the horrors of botched executions go a long way toward undermining support for the system. While nitrogen hypoxia would be humane, it also makes the death penalty so much easier to sell. Part of me would rather have it be barbarous to undermine support. Though I can see the state being so incompetent that they end up gassing half of the executioners along with the inmate, even though they're just putting a mask on the inmate's face.
The issue is with the specific protocol being used. It's not made public or documented. It's almost all though they're interested in torturing him instead of humanely executing him.
If done right. You know that people qualified to do it right don't participate in executions, right?
That's why they fuck up giving someone injections on a regular basis.
How does one fuck up flooding a room with nitrogen gas?
Step 1: Be incompetent.
So you see no difference in lethal injection and filling a room with nitrogen? If not, there's no point discussing it with you. But I'll give you a hint! Worst case, there's not enough NO2 to cause death, so the subject gets stoned as balls and they introduce more.
This ain't rocket science.
I see no difference in an incompetent person trying something they are not qualified to do and then trying to do another thing they are unqualified to do. I expect them to fail at both.
You also don't appear to understand how the NO2 process works. It isn't that they just need to add more N02, they also need to remove the oxygen AND CO2 at the same time. That is actually fairly complicated and requires knowledge on air movement in a restricted space. If they can't properly dose someone with needles, good luck on them doing it right with airflow.
This isn't a "gas chamber" type of execution. They're putting a mask on the person with nitrogen gas. Though the state's executioners are so incompetent that they'll probably end up gassing themselves.
You've experienced this?