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Why the hell don't we just swap their air supply with nitrogen? No medical knowledge needed, no pharmacy needed. Considering the number of engineers in the defense industry they don't exactly have a Hippocratic oath. Most of air is nitrogen so your body doesn't fight it. You just feel stupid and loopy and high like losing cabin pressure in a airplane. CO2 or Helium would work as well.
Orphan crushing machine moment.
Just abolish the death penalty.
Sometime, as a little treat for yourself, see if you can huff the whiff of nearly pure CO² gasthat forms in the neck of a coke bottle when it is first opened.
That little whisp of vapor.
It's neat to see how carbon dioxide feels to breathe.
Why dont you just stop behaving like barbarians and give an end to this practice?
CO2 makes you panic, that would be horrific.
nitrogen would also be inhuman, because gas is associated with the gas chambers.
Exactly what I was thinking! Helium, yes. They actually use it for unlicensed euthanasia.
We have a shortage of helium. Again though, just ban the death penalty. No matter how badly you think someone deserves it, the potential to execute an innocent person should override that. Especially with how our legal system is manipulated.
They botch that too. The few times they've done it the prisoner ends up suffocating to death because they don't vacate the CO2
Abolish the death penalty
Nitrogen is preferred. Your body can detect elevated CO2 levels and make you start to gasp breath. Helium would make the person’s voice go squeaky. I don’t think anyone involved wants the condemned shouting in a Mickey Mouse voice before they die.
We think this would humane, but we dont actually know is my understanding.
Not that this was humane either.
Edit: i think you meant CO, not CO2.
Yes you are right, I was thinking of carbon monoxide not dioxide as yourself and others pointed out.
CO2, absolutely no! Elevated carbonic acid in your blood causes a very visceral reaction.