what's wrong with a guillotine? Other than making the embalmer's job harder
Death would be instant and guaranteed.
Technically, a guillotine (at least the traditional ones used in the middle-ages) is not an always guaranteed death. It wasn't exactly uncommon for the blade to have to be lifted again and dropped in order to completely sever the head, especially if you had people with bigger / stronger neck bones, or if crappy construction allowed extra friction on the blade as it dropped, slowing it down a little (and it wasn't uncommon back then for blood splatter to end up gumming up the guides).
So there were times that the blade had to be redropped a couple of times to ensure a complete beheading, and unfortunately that process was a wee bit......extra....on the pain / suffering of the executed. While a good chunk of our blood-thirsty human nature would instantly jump in with a "Good! They deserve it!" response, part of the reason we went with lethal injections versus other methods (firing squad, hanging, etc.) is that it is the more humane way to end a life.
Not to say that we couldn't make a higher quality guillotine that could avoid the Medieval version problems, but I think the biases of potential failure are already baked in.
(yeah, yeah, I know, Squeaky knows a little too much about Medieval torture methods. I read, OK!)
I'd like to hire you to run sentencing
Have had that happen (to me).
A well meaning fill-in nurse got in a hurry, missed on the IV connection and nearly caused the back of my hand to ablate from having caustic Vincristin (Cancer treatment chemo) being pumped outside the vein…🤬
Still have the mark to prove it… I was extremely fortunate to have gotten heat packs on it before things went from bad to Worse… 😎
I’ve had nurses miss the vein, go completely thru it, etc… It’s evidently more of an art than a science, some nurses have zero issues and others make you want to try and hide under the hospital bed when you see them coming… 🙈😵💫
The worst thing is that when you could Really use a drink you can’t have one (and I’m not even a serious drinker)…😉
She's supposedly on life support. Why not remove it?
@76-1 damn dude that’s awful. My daughter gets infusions. They no longer do her arm. Always the hand. I’ve run nurses off after repeatedly stabbing with less than kind words. It’s definitely an art. Some are worthless. Some are jedis. Above all things with medical care never be afraid to speak up
yep…
Like every profession there’s a few shaky ones out there…
Fortunately most of the ones I’ve interacted with were good…
You really have to watch out if it looks like they’re in a hurry to make a shift change or to get to another patient… That’s where the errors occurred with me…
Had another one in a hurry who pumped the drug in at too high a rate and if my wife hadn’t noticed the red marks on my head and neck I would have been in serious trouble (I couldn’t see it [without a mirror]…
They had to go thru all their emergency procedures… (it was interesting to be on the receiving end of it)…
Thankfully I’m blessed to be in remission now (after 2 bouts with Cancer and multiple different courses of Chemo & radiation, Plus, etc…). I guess I’m meant to stick around for awhile, hopefully…
I’m still getting stuck (labs) on a regular basis and I still hate needles with a vengeance (I just try to think of climbing vistas while they’re poking me)…😎
@76-1 remission?!!!! You just turned a shitty day into a good one. Congratulations buddy ❤️
I’ve had nurses miss the vein, go completely thru it, etc… It’s evidently more of an art than a science, some nurses have zero issues and others make you want to try and hide under the hospital bed when you see them coming… 🙈😵💫
I've got great big fat veins on one arm that I always tell them to use. I've been told I'm an easy draw by most techs. Even then, every now and then they're just having a bad day and it takes a couple jabs before they get a good flow.
To be clear, I'm talking about blood draws (which I get frequently), not infusions.
I always drink about a gallon of water before a blood draw so that they can find my veins. Otherwise they keep poking and poking and digging, and my arms end up looking like I tried a rope-a-dope defense vs. Mike Tyson.