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This is so dumb I can't get my head around it. Put a man in a chamber, flood it with N2, painless, easy death. Hell, he even gets to go out high as a kite!

Are we all so ignorant that this isn't obvious?! FFS, I remember a tragedy where two teens died fucking in a giant helium balloon. They didn't know they were dying.

CO2 overload is what triggers the choking/suffering response. Our bodies have no way to detect a lack of O2. We'll happily breathe any non-noxious gas, as long as it's not CO2. Hypoxia don't sound like a bad way to go. .45ACP to the skull comes a close second, but I'd like to fade out stoned, given the chance.

Signed: Old guy with mild emphysema from smoking 20-years. I don't get short of oxygen, I get short trying to pump the CO2 out.

The funny thing is short of overdosing on ketamine and morphine, I always thought nitrogen gas would be my preferred choice to go as it sidesteps the hypercapnia that leads to the urge to need to breathe.

That being said, they could always build a pressure chamber to simulate even a fraction of the pressure differential the titan submersible went through and that is proven to be painless and faster than the point the brain can process.

Or, you know, just not use the death penalty.

Simply chop his head with a guillotine. Almost zero percent chance of fucking up, quick and painless. No, that one story about the slapped head is bunkum. Standing up suddenly can cause you to faint due to low blood pressure. Having your neck cut off results in a much more sudden drop in blood pressure to the brain. People just don't want to see the messy blood spilled. If you want to execute someone, deal with it.

Welp. Here's hard undeniable proof that CBSnews is absolutely worthless. They're lying and putting together as many bad adjectives together as they can to make the most humane possible execution method sound absolutely terrible. This is literally the way I want to die. It's simply hypoxia without the CO2 spike that makes you feel like you're suffocating. You get a good buzz this way. FFS, I literally hyperventilate and then hold my breath while jerking it for this effect!

Fuck CBS and all the people trying to make this look bad. The only bad about it is that we're still killing people with a legal system that convicts innocents like me.

We can have a solid, productive argument about the way that they death penalty is applied, and how it's more likely to be used in racist and classist ways. (My stance is that some people need to be completely removed from the possibility of being returned to society; the overwhelming majority of the people that fall into that extreme risk category are white, and almost always have famous pseudonyms, like Co-Ed Killer, Night Stalker, Zodiac, Green River Killer, Father John Geoghan, and so on.)

You can't argue in good faith that nitrogen is anything other than a very soft way to die.

There’s a pretty fail-safe way to avoid this happening.

I would expect nothing less of such a medieval shithole

Better idea. M16, three shots to the head.