BBM I don't understand either. Is it because the drugs used are for animals only? Seems those drugs will work for humans, too, but since I'm not a MD or nurse, I wouldn't know.
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The two injection method (for animals)
The currently favored method of euthanasia in veterinary private practice settings is that of the so-called “two injection method.”
In this approach an initial injection is given, either in the vein (IV) or in the muscle (IM), to achieve extreme sedation. A second injection is then administered IV to overdose the animal with an
anesthetic drug.
Both injections are considered “overdoses” of medications we normally use in veterinary practice for sedation, tranquilization and/or anesthesia, but not every veterinarian uses the same drugs..."
http://www.petmd.com/blogs/fullyvet...softly-chemical-drug-euthanasia-pets-101-5780
But I do know that some drug companies and some countries where they sell those drugs are not willing to sell the drugs used for the DP to the US anymore- so more problems.
And then there's the problem of just how effective the drugs are in a "humane" death, too.
I think more people are questioning the DP now than in previous years.
I do think that the use of drugs, if delivered correctly, is the more humane way than say hanging; the firing squad method doesn't sit well with me, neither does the electric chair(well, the whole business of the DP doesn't sit well with me anyway).
Gonna go a little off track here:
I was looking into giving my body to science after I die by way of a anatomical gift program at one of the medical colleges in Albany, NY. I thought it would be a good way to give back and save money for funerals and such for my sons. Well, I think that funerals are a big waste of money- even tho' I know that they are for the family's comfort. Put my body in a plain pine box with my favorite comforter and dress me in a nightgown and slippers and I'm all set to go- maybe all of $200 or so instead of $8000 that was spent on my mother's funeral. Or better yet, go to Aruba instead and mourn me
.
Anyway- back to the anatomical gift program: if my sons do not agree about having my body donated to science, the college will not accept my body no matter what I may have in my will. When I spoke to my younger son, he said "whatever you want Mom", but then my older son, after researching- he's a researcher like me
- said he wouldn't agree to it. When asked why, he said "Do you know what they can do with those bodies?" and, of course, I said no. He directed me to a book that he found on Amazon and that he read an exerpt from:
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
http://www.amazon.com/Stiff-Curious...id=1422564301&sr=1-8&keywords=anatomical+gift
They do some crazy things with dead bodies, according to this book. :scared:
He continued to say that if he agreed to the program, it would be like subjecting his mom's body to things that were done to some of the people in the Holocaust and he couldn't do it.
I have to accept what he was feeling, so I have just filed the papers that were sent to me by the college to maybe address it with my son on another day, but I don't think he will change his mind.
Now that I think of it, all this fuss for a dead body just pales in comparison to the DP, with someone who is alive- even tho' that person probably shouldn't be allowed to be in the general population anymore. Are these people better off dead? I don't know, but I know they are people, even if they are very evil people, IMO.
Just some thoughts.
