The lady in the video said that if you take this MAID drug orally (at 5:10), it takes up to 24 hours to kill you by drowning. But, if you are given a paralytic, unless you are on a ventilator, you cannot breath, so it is the paralytic that will cause the death, and in minutes, not hours. When given a paralytic, the patient is very much aware of what is happening, but unable to respond. A compassionate death would also include heavy sedation.
There are definitely some misperceptions in this lady’s understanding. Sodium thiopental is a barbiturate induction agent. At high doses it renders a person unconscious. They’re not suffering through a drowning like experience. They’re unconscious and being put to death….and, why do we care if executed people have some ‘extra’ pulmonary edema? I’m confused. Anyway, I personally believe assisted suicide to be wrong morally, ethically, and spiritually.
The lady in the video said that if you take this MAID drug orally (at 5:10), it takes up to 24 hours to kill you by drowning. But, if you are given a paralytic, unless you are on a ventilator, you cannot breath, so it is the paralytic that will cause the death, and in minutes, not hours. When given a paralytic, the patient is very much aware of what is happening, but unable to respond. A compassionate death would also include heavy sedation.
There are definitely some misperceptions in this lady’s understanding. Sodium thiopental is a barbiturate induction agent. At high doses it renders a person unconscious. They’re not suffering through a drowning like experience. They’re unconscious and being put to death….and, why do we care if executed people have some ‘extra’ pulmonary edema? I’m confused. Anyway, I personally believe assisted suicide to be wrong morally, ethically, and spiritually.