BrotherJayne posted:

The Onion was badly outflanked by reality somewhere around 2016, and never recovered

lobster shirt posted:

obama ate a dog and hell americans love him

lobster shirt posted:

yup

lobster shirt posted:

obama ate a dog and hell americans love him

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

he is a trans prostitute who smokes crack in limos with his johns and michelle is trans too just look at her arms

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

he is a trans prostitute who smokes crack in limos with his johns and michelle is trans too just look at her arms (laudatory)

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

he is a trans prostitute who smokes crack in limos with his johns and michelle is trans too just look at her arms

shrike82 posted:

https://twitter.com/thechosenberg/status/1784296686522618353
lol

shrike82 posted:

https://twitter.com/thechosenberg/status/1784296686522618353
lol

Inspector Hound posted:

Well, what happened

Inspector Hound posted:

Well, what happened

Crazypoops posted:

so was it bitter?

Inspector Hound posted:

Well, what happened

nationalpost.com posted:

After his terminally ill friend described the preparation as bitter, 'this patient ingested an unknown-sized ‘sip’ of the preparation.

The case had toxicologists sitting up.

At the North American Clinical Congress on Toxicology annual conference in Montreal over the weekend, a case study was presented involving a 37-year-old man from Denver who survived after swallowing a “sip” of a cocktail of assisted suicide drugs during an end-of-life celebration for a friend dying of pancreatic cancer.

“The patient’s friend was prescribed a Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) preparation as part of a physician-assisted suicide program,” read a slide from the case study tweeted out Sunday.

“After the patient’s friend consumed part of the preparation and described it as bitter, this patient ingested an unknown-sized ‘sip’ of the preparation,” which included lethal doses of drugs to cause the person ending their life to lose consciousness and stop the heart.

According to those attending the discussion on the management of medical emergencies, the 37-year-old man, who had a history of anxiety, attention deficit disorder and chronic pain, made a full recovery over a few days, from what was reported at the toxicology conference.

The American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, the conference host, did not respond to a request for more information about the case or the presenter before deadline.

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But it had uncanny similarities with a case published last year involving a 35-year-old Colorado man who survived after taking a sip of a MAID cocktail. His older friend had invited loved ones to be present while he consumed the MAID preparation, according to the report.

“After his first swallow, he remarked, ‘Man that burns!’ The younger man, said, ‘Let me see,’ and then also took a swallow,” the report said.

“The attending paramedic directs rescuers to begin ventilating the younger man while requesting evidence of advance directives for the older man,” the report continued.

“Care was not rendered to the death with dignity patient” because he had a valid medical form stating he wanted no lifesaving measures performed on him.

The younger man was treated for “massive polypharmacy ingestion.”

“As patients who have an ingestion of MAID medication intend to die, resuscitation of such individuals is very rare,” the authors wrote. The man was ventilated and regained consciousness “with full neurologic recovery” after a two-day stay in intensive care.

“Accidental ingestion (of a MAID cocktail) should be rare and to our knowledge has never been reported,” the team wrote. “As was the case in this call, the individual drug components that comprise the MAID medication are intentionally at high doses to ensure death.”

Many expressed shock at the concentrations of drugs used in the assisted suicide cocktail described at the weekend toxicology conference.

“My chin is on the floor looking at that list,” one nurse tweeted. “I’m stunned that anyone could survive that ‘sip.’”

“Was the attending physician out back having a spliff and a beer,” another tweeted. “Or are these self-supervised events? Not even a pamphlet telling them not to share their lethal dope with their mates?”

“If this is true, it’s highly irresponsible of the medical professional in attendance to allow a random guest to touch the drugs,” another person said. “Seems very suspicious to me!”

Colorado, like several other U.S. states, allows MAID by the oral route only, through a prescription the qualified terminally ill patient fills and administers themselves or with family, to end his or her own life.

A doctor may be present but must not be involved in the delivery of the medication.

In Canada, oral MAID is rarely used. Intravenous MAID, death by doctor-administered lethal injection, is the primary mode of assisted dying provision in Canada. Of 10,064 MAID deaths reported in 2021, fewer than seven involved the oral route.

The oral protocol, which isn’t legal in Quebec, is not popular for several reasons. Among them are higher rates of complications, longer, drawn-out deaths and a higher failure rate.

High-dose barbiturates are the drugs most often used, compounded into a sweet liquid formulation that needs to be swallowed within a certain number of minutes so that it reaches peak levels.

If people have trouble swallowing because of gut problems caused by disease, if they regurgitate, it can mean incomplete doses that fail to kill.

Death can be prolonged. Most provinces require that a doctor or nurse practitioner be present with an IV back-up kit in case death doesn’t occur “within an agreed upon time.”

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“After his first swallow, he remarked, ‘Man that burns!’ The younger man, said, ‘Let me see,’ and then also took a swallow,” the report said.

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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

guy got hosed up super quick, even though he did survive I don't think I'd do it myself

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A bystander hands a medicine bottle to the attending paramedic frantically saying, “They drank this! They drank this!” The bottle contains digoxin 100 mg, diazepam 1,000 mg, morphine 15,000 mg, amitriptyline 8,000 mg and phenobarbital 5,000 mg. She remarks that the older man “should be dead” and the younger one “should be alive.”

Mola Yam posted:

10k maid death per year seems like a lot

mawarannahr posted:

don't tell me this isn't tempting

mawarannahr posted:

A man thought it was a good idea to take a 'sip' of his friend's assisted suicide cocktail

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

wtf is the digoxin for, the rest sounds great

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

wtf is the digoxin for, the rest sounds great

lobster shirt posted:

cant they just give you a shitload of morphine or something, this seems unnecessarily complicated

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