ParrotGal
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He must have been in shock... he didn't feel any pain.
Shock numbs the pain and shock ,in sooth, is the way in which your own body is motivating you to fight or flight to stay alive. Reacting to pain would get in the way of that and that is precisely why pain is significantly dulled, mind goes blank and instincts kick in.
I think it might have been something like that, the memory is fuzzy.
Right.
And she doesn't want to lose even more than she doesn't want to die.
If saving her life were her priority, the nonsense would have stopped for this retrial.
Not every defendant gets a second chance but this one did and just look at what she has done with it. She could have pleaded to the court and the jury that what happened that day in June 2008 is something she will always regret. She could have expressed grief and sadness at the loss of this man that she loved, sorrow, remorse, that it is something that she will have to live with for the rest of her life, and so on...
But she did not do that. She instead continues to attack her victim. And she does that because she cannot accept losing.
IMO, her inability to accept losing played a huge part in his death.
I know you're the doctor but it doesn't always work like that.
Plus, the suffering part also comes in in that he knew he was dying.
He must have been in shock... he didn't feel any pain.
Shock numbs the pain and shock ,in sooth, is the way in which your own body is motivating you to fight or flight to stay alive. Reacting to pain would get in the way of that and that is precisely why pain is significantly dulled, mind goes blank and instincts kick in.
Ok, so I don't even know how it happened, but I spaced and while doing other unimportant crap today forgot that it was Monday and Trial day. I checked in and see In Recess and couldn;t even read before posting. Please don't tell me court is adjourned til next week......
I think it's the state that wants to call Vernon Parker.
When you are in shock you don't even know that you are dying! Just google the statements of people who tried to commit suicide and failed about what they felt seconds after they were seriously cut and after they lost their first liter of blood. It appears to be a "great" experience to bleed out. I mean I'd rather bleed out than get drowned or beaten to death.
The state is calling his wife? There is a Parker ( I think the name was Dorthy) on the list of witnesses for the state.
I wish I could believe he did not feel any pain but the look on his face in that last shower photo tells me that was not the case.
By the way this is how people feel while in shock and how Travis must've felt (as far as pain concerned I mean):
At the age of 16, I almost died from a doctor who forgot to cauterize my veins after a tonsillectomy. Now Bumble, I beg to differ. I saw no light. I didn't feel any pain laying on the table in the ER. I felt peace. It was an amazing feeling. My brain didn't shut down. I remember looking up (I had lost too much blood and could NOT move) when my father walked in crying. He touched my forehead but I didn't feel the touch. I felt an overwhelming sense of unconditional love. I watched him leave the room as they put me on a gurney. I suppose I blacked out but then came to as the nurses were pushing me into an elevator to go to the operating room. I heard one of the nurses say she was scared to death for me. I told her not to be scared , that I wasn't in pain. How the heck I managed to say that ?? I have no clue . I literally could not move or much else from how much blood I lost. But it did show me one thing. Dying isn't scary, as you say your brain shuts down. I think maybe your brain stops yourself from feeling any pain or going into shock. It may be our bodies way of protecting us. Yet I have to say , the peace I felt was like nothing I have ever felt before or after. Its now 21 years later and I still remember the peace I felt.
URL: http://able2know.org/topic/178024-2
Mmm, I'd imagine the experience of lying back and slicing your own wrists during suicide is much more peaceful than being attacked with a giant knife before having your throat sliced open. Jodi describes Travis as "screaming like a girl" and saying "I can't feel my legs." He wasn't just lying there bleeding out. Travis knew he was being killed.
I've read a lot about death and dying. Not every death experience is peaceful and calm.
There's the same principal of hypovolemic shock at work. It starts with volume contraction (minor blood loss of less than a liter) and then turns into moderate hypovolemic shock by the time you lose your first liter of blood. Also if you put an "adrenalin rush" and hypoperfusion together in the same individual strange things would happen...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_contraction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_(circulatory)