In a first, an American woman used a suicide pod to take her own life. The process took place in Switzerland. It’s done by pumping in only nitrogen gas, so the person will lose goes dizzy, loses consciousness and eventually dies. Enter futurama memes.

  • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    There are more and more vets that are using firearms now on farms to euthanize because the drugs they use also cause panic. A 9mm round to the brain instantly incapacitates the animal, they don’t even know what happens. It’s the kindest way to euthanize your animals, anyone telling you the cocktail of drugs or co2 is more humane is full of shit.

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      2 hours ago

      Not to mention that the drug they use, euthanyl is very bad to get into the ecosystem. If you have a pet euthanized then you can’t take it home and bury it because the chemical will poison anything that happens to dig up the body and eat it.

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        Yup, there have been a lot of reports of vultures getting sick or dying from improperly disposed animals.

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          50 minutes ago

          In a way I hope my dog dies of natural causes because I don’t want to put him down and not get to put him in the forest of our backyard.

          Cremation is bullshit, they cremate a pile of pets all at once and scoop out some for each person. You likely aren’t getting your own pet back.

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            29 minutes ago

            Our vet offers a choice between group or solo cremation, with the latter of course costing more.

            And yeah that’s assuming they’re being honest, lol.

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      3 hours ago

      Physical trauma makes sense for large animals. If you have 50 lab rats that you need to euthanize, a gassing setup can make more sense than individually whacking them.

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        47 minutes ago

        It makes sense and is more convenient, yes, but they were saying that it’s more humane to do the physical instead.

        If you had the time and patience to do a tiny bolt gun to the brain of all 50 rats individually it would probably be more humane. But it’s inconvenient and difficult.

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        3 hours ago

        Completely agreed, but at that point, just use nitrogen, it’s insane that this isn’t the standard practice.

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          2 hours ago

          Why …why are there so many can crushing videos… I’d thought I’ve seen everything on the net by now