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Assisted Suicide Deaths Neither Painless or Dignified.

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ASSISTED SUICIDE DEATHS ARE NOT WHAT YOU THINK THEY ARE.

David Rose, writing for the Daily Mail UK published an article on October 21, 2021,
titled: Why an’assisted death is almost certainly not what you think it is.
Stories about how assisted suicide deaths actually occur are rarely published.

Recently researcher Dr Joel Zivot has challenged how deaths by assisted suicide
actually occur in his article – Assisted Suicide is neither painless nor
dignified.

Rose states that assisted suicide deaths will often take many hours.
Rose writes about the death of Colorado resident Kurt Huschle who died by assisted
suicide in July 2017. Rose writes:

On the morning of July 16, a nurse arrived at their home and checked that Kurt stood
by his decision. By noon, he was ready to go. Following the directions given,
Susan mixed the contents of two small bottles into a bigger one and gave it to Kurt.

She had expected him to drink the drug cocktail, share a last hug, then pass away peacefully.

Instead, as Susan later told the Denver Post newspaper: ‘With every sip he’s choking and
coughing, choking and coughing.’

After 20 minutes, she said, he began to gasp unevenly. He seemed to have lost consciousness.
But more than four hours after he took the drugs, he was still alive.

Scared and upset, Susan called a doctor and asked for help. It was then the thought struck
her that, like many dying patients, Kurt might still be partly conscious and able to hear her.


MORE THAN EIGHT HOURS AFTER KURT TOOK THE DRUG, HE SAT UP IN BED, RETCHED AND FINALLY
STOPPED BREATHING.


At 8.15pm, more than eight hours after Kurt took the drugs, he sat up in bed, retched and
finally stoped breathing.

Susan said she still believed it was right to help him die. But it had not been a peaceful
farewell
and they had not been able to say goodbye as she had wanted.

The Oregon 2019 assisted suicide report states that the time of death ranged from 1 minute
to 47 hours
but the report didn’t indicate how many people died more than 90 minutes after
taking the lethal drugs.


ASSISTED SUICIDE DRUG EXPERIMENTATION.


Assisted suicide activists have been experimenting for several years with lethal assisted
suicide drug cocktail experiments to find a cheaper way to cause death.

An article by Lisa Krieger published by the Medical Xpress on September 8, 2020 uncovers
information about the lethal drug experiments:

A little-known secret, not publicized by advocates of aid-in-dying, was that while most
deaths were speedy, others were very slow. Some patients lingered for six or nine hours;
a few, more than three days
. No one knew why, or what needed to change.

“The public thinks that you take a pill and you’re done,” said Dr. Gary Pasternak, chief
medical officer of Mission Hospice in San Mateo. “But it’s more complicated than that.”

An article published in USA Today in February 2017 examined the experiments being done
on people to find a cheaper lethal drug cocktail for assisted suicide. The article states
that assisted suicide researchers are promoting new generations of lethal drug cocktails.
The results of the first two lethal drug cocktails were:


THE FIRST TURNED OUT TO BE TOO HARSH, BURNING PATIENTS’ MOUTHS & THROATS, CAUSING SOME TO
SCREAM IN PAIN.


The (first) turned out to be too harsh, burning patients’ mouths and throats,
causing some to scream in pain. The second drug mix, used 67 times, has led to deaths
that stretched out hours in some patients — and up to 31 hours in one case.

The 2020 Oregon report emphasizes the use of the fourth generation of lethal drug cocktails
show that the length of time to die has reduced but the problems with the use of these
lethal drug cocktails continue.

Adapted ‘Assisted death is almost certainly not what you think it is”
by David Rose, UK, Daily MaiL / 21/10/21


Alex Schadenberg / Euthanasia Prevention Coalition