i'm ok with people making that choice, but i'd be leeeeeeeery aaaassss fuuuuuck that the government/doctors wouldn't actually kill me, and that i'd be kept in some sort of coma until my organs could be harvested live. we've all read stories of anesthesiologists getting something wrong and, although the patient is immobile, their eyes are closed, and they seem knocked out, the patient can feel every cut, poke, and saw stroke.
i'd just as soon score some fentynal, find a nice, secluded spot in the wilderness, and OD leaned up against a tree in the middle of nowhere. ymmv
The issue is the people are ahem prompted to commit suicide.
As for your story...I once had ACL reconstruction surgery. I was supposed to be awake for it, it's safer that way. I could feel them drilling and such, and it hurt. Maybe I have a tolerance or some such to the shot they gave me in my spine to numb me from the waist down. The anesthesiologist looked at me in surprise "you can feel that?" he said. I said yes. He turned a spigot on the IV and I was out cold before I could count to ten.
Opiods and other pain drugs are odd. Doctors are finally starting to admit that people complaining of pain aren't faking. Actually, whites have a surprising percentage of opioid resistance and Asians has a huge amount, if you look at the studies/genetics.
Unfortunately, this means they need bigger dosages and is correlated with increased susceptibility to addiction. They chose the right drugs for the opium war and the current fentynal type drugs. Luckily for the Asians, they now have a culture very much against those type of drugs so are less affected by the fentynal/morphine drugs coming in.
i'm ok with people making that choice, but i'd be leeeeeeeery aaaassss fuuuuuck that the government/doctors wouldn't actually kill me, and that i'd be kept in some sort of coma until my organs could be harvested live. we've all read stories of anesthesiologists getting something wrong and, although the patient is immobile, their eyes are closed, and they seem knocked out, the patient can feel every cut, poke, and saw stroke.
i'd just as soon score some fentynal, find a nice, secluded spot in the wilderness, and OD leaned up against a tree in the middle of nowhere. ymmv
The issue is the people are ahem prompted to commit suicide.
As for your story...I once had ACL reconstruction surgery. I was supposed to be awake for it, it's safer that way. I could feel them drilling and such, and it hurt. Maybe I have a tolerance or some such to the shot they gave me in my spine to numb me from the waist down. The anesthesiologist looked at me in surprise "you can feel that?" he said. I said yes. He turned a spigot on the IV and I was out cold before I could count to ten.
Opiods and other pain drugs are odd. Doctors are finally starting to admit that people complaining of pain aren't faking. Actually, whites have a surprising percentage of opioid resistance and Asians has a huge amount, if you look at the studies/genetics.
Unfortunately, this means they need bigger dosages and is correlated with increased susceptibility to addiction. They chose the right drugs for the opium war and the current fentynal type drugs. Luckily for the Asians, they now have a culture very much against those type of drugs so are less affected by the fentynal/morphine drugs coming in.