Euthanasia Is Not 'Painless' and 'Dignified
- The journal 'Anesthesia' reported that there are no standardised methods of euthanasia; as a result, there is a high incidence of vomiting, reawakening from coma and prolongation of the dying process, with some taking up to seven days to die.
- A Dutch study showed that in 21 out of 114 cases, suicide victims did not die as quickly as expected or woke up and the doctor had to kill them "a second time".
- The same drugs used to kill prisoners on death row are sometimes used for euthanasia. But killing prisoners does not always go "smoothly".
- A study of more than 200 autopsy reports after executions in nine American states found evidence of pulmonary oedema (fluid) in the lungs, which can cause a sense of drowning or suffocation.
- Midazolam used in executions has caused signs of pain, including gasping, choking and coughing, with condemned struggling against their restraints.
- Complications of euthanasia include: difficulty finding a vein, convulsions, twitching, nausea, vomiting, tachycardia, sweating, wheezing.
- Some assisted suicides vomit their lethal dose of drugs before it is absorbed by the stomach.
- The sedative propofol is one of the drugs used in euthanasia; it can cause a sensation of burning as it flows through a vein when given in non-lethal doses. No one knows what effect it has when given in large doses during euthanasia.
- Sedatives make the suicide appear calm and quiet, but that doesn't tell us what the patient is really experiencing.
- If the poison is given orally, euthanasia can take up to ten hours. One patient took 104 hours to die, another became unconscious 25 minutes after swallowing lethal drugs, but woke up and regained consciousness 65 hours later.
- People killed by euthanasia drugs may make gasping sounds. Dr James Downar, a specialist in palliative care, "doesn't think" that they are signs of distress.
- Monitors are not used during euthanasia, so there is no evidence of what is happening. There is no attempt to monitor brain or heart response.
- In Belgium, the relatives of a 36-year-old woman heard screams as she was being euthanised, and a post-mortem revealed that she had been suffocated with a pillow after the drugs failed to kill her.
- An elderly, demented woman in Belgium was euthanised at the request of her family. First, the euthanasia doctor spiked her coffee with her sedatives while she was unsuspectingly chatting to her family. The euthanasia doctor then injected another sedative. The woman then stood up. Her relatives held her down while the euthaniser administered a lethal injection. In court, the judges said that "given the patient's profoundly demented condition, the doctor did not need to verify her wish for euthanasia".
- A gunshot would be quicker and probably less painful than drugs. Why don't euthanasia advocates support the idea that doctors should just shoot patients? A firing squad could be made up of doctors and nurses.
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