#“death with dignity”
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CJ court watch Kenneth Eugene Smith execution
SCt declined on Thurs to stay the execution in Smith v. Hamm, 601 U. S. __ (2024). J. Sotomayor was incensed and dissented. J.J. Kagan and Jackson also dissented.
The issue was whether nitrogen hypoxia is a cruel and unusual method of execution. The state's response to his petition included
When Alabama scheduled Smith to be executed in 2022, he challenged the State’s lethal injection protocol. Nitrogen hypoxia would be preferable, Smith said, because he would “lose consciousness within seconds, and experience no pain or discomfort while dying within minutes.” DE39-1:¶86.1 On August 25, 2023, the State agreed to execute Smith by nitrogen hypoxia, not lethal injection, and moved to set a new execution date**** https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-6562/298749/20240125133540947_Oppo%20to%20Stay%20and%20BIO%20FINAL.pdf
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***The execution process began at 7:53 p.m. CT Thursday, and Smith was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m., according to Alabama Department of Corrections officials. Nitrogen flowed for about 15 minutes during the procedure, state corrections commissioner John Hamm said in a news conference. Smith, who was on a gurney, appeared conscious for “several minutes into the execution,” and “shook and writhed” for about two minutes after that, media witnesses said in a joint report. That was followed by several minutes of deep breathing before his breath began slowing “until it was no longer perceptible for media witnesses,” the media witnesses said. When asked at the news conference about Smith shaking at the beginning of the execution, Hamm said Smith appeared to be holding his breath “for as long as he could” and may have also “struggled against his restraints.” “There was some involuntary movement and some agonal breathing, so that was all expected and is in the side effects that we’ve seen and researched on nitrogen hypoxia,” Hamm said. “So nothing was out of the ordinary of what we were expecting.” Agonal breathing is an irregular, gasping breath pattern that can happen when someone is near death.*** https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/us/alabama-execution-nitrogen-what-we-know/index.html
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Blanke, C. (2017). Characterizing 18 years of the Death with Dignity Act in Oregon. JAMA Oncol. 3(10) reported >950 cases of physician assisted suicide in Oregon. Blanke found
Patients rarely remained unconscious for long periods; median time to death was 25 minutes, but the range was 1 minute to more than 4 days. The medications were relatively devoid of unexpected toxic effects. Vomiting was unusual (24 patients, 2.4%). Six patients awakened, giving the medications an efficacy rate of 99.4%.
Smith's death was right in the ball park for what you'd expect for "death with dignity."
#Kenneth Eugene Smith#don't murder anyone in Alabama#asked for nitrogen hypoxia#“death with dignity��
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every day i wake up and am mad at the end of steves storyline and the full and complete lack of people who GET IT
#steve rogers#stucky#captian america#bucky barnes#captain america the first avenger#peggy litterally found steve alone in a destroyed bar after bucky “died” trying to get drunk or drink himself to death#blameing himself for bucks death#then peggs goes and says “allow barnes the dignity of his choice” in reference to him falling from the train#THEN when steve is gonna crash the carrier#BRO LITTERALLY SAYS “THIS IS MY CHOICE”#GIRL WE GET IT#you couldnt stand being without him so you decided the only way to join him was in death#but he knew it would be seen as heroic to die that way#THERE WERE OTHER WAYS TO LIVE AND SAVE THE WORLD#but he chose the one that let him claim martyrdom#n e ways#i would and will eventually write many essays about them but for now i am gonna go back to pretending to do homework#also if anyone has fic recs gimme
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#hehe#sufjan stevens#carrie & lowell#john my beloved#the only thing#death with dignity#no shade in the shadow of the cross#drawn to the blood#should have known better#blue bucket of gold#all of me wants all of you
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Ok what if…
what if the demons thought that lbh’s a husband snatcher?
listen ok so I’m pretty sure the demons know that LBH’s keeping a dead body in his room BUT they also know that the war god is fighting for said body right?
now I find it funny if they think that LBH just took LQG’s dead husband and the war god is trying to get him back.
there are opposing sides to this one on LQG’s (‘he literally stole the dead body of his husband!) vs LBH’s (‘ maybe THE WAR GOD killed his husband how could you know?!’)
#svsss#shen yuan#shen qingqiu#liu qingge#luo binghe#liushen#???#ithink#luo binghe knows about said rumor and is SEETHING#Probably adds fuel to his jealousy#Wait#HOW WOULD SQQ LOOK IN THIS SCENARIOS#AFTER HE GOT TOGETHER WITH LBH#anyway#These three are a soap opera to them#Btw I did do this half asleep so not perfect#Honestly depending on if it ends in liushen and bingqiu it would be hilarious#For liushen it’s a man who fought for his lover even in death/the divorced husband not getting over his lover#For bingqiu it’s a man who fought for his unrequited loves dignity by getting him away from his ex husband (probably spread by LBH) /#Some guy who stole someone’s lovers dead body and got together with said lover
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we talking about some sex update?
#cult of the lamb#cotl narinder#narinder#narilamb#true devotion#narinder x lamb#sins of the flesh#save yourself some dignity o god of death#i mean ex god sorry#haha ex god sex god#//tako art
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@little-meowyao They're swords, they tend to be rather literal about this sort of thing u.u
Nothing like a fifteen hundred foot trust exercise between two people who absolutely do not trust each other, one of which has very good reason to fear long falls!!
#nieyao#nie mingjue#jin guangyao#baxia#hensheng#jgy#nmj#i really enjoy this sentient sword matchmaker au too much#though this one took me a while to puzzle out i just couldn't decide what their scheming would look like#and then i realised the obvious answer: i can carry on my favourite past time of putting jgy into situations he will Hate!! 🎉#which wins: jgy's dignity or his desire to Not Plummet To His Death?#obvious the latter#in this one instance he will risk nmj's wrath because he is slightly less likely to kill him than splattering across the ground will!#he will cling to nmj like limpet he is NOT coming off until he knows for a fact that he has hensheng securely under his feet again#my art
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Dignified?
Dignified?!
DIGNIFIED?!?
I’m sorry when did getting killed in a battle or burnt to a crisp become a more dignified way to die? Has this fandom run so far with the notion that women are only valuable if they are masculine or fighters to the point that we find gruesome deaths in battle as a superior way for them to die?
Why must a woman be a warrior or a fighter to have value? Why must she seek power in traditionally masculine ways to be powerful and respected? Why does this fandom wish for all women to be the same cookie cutter, fighting girlboss lest she be titled a misogynistic pathetic trad wife? What is wrong with this fandom and their glorification of masculinity and violence and their continuous desire to have any soft, gentle, kind character be changed into a fighter or else they will ridicule and hate her?!
Helaena deserves far better than her book canon death. But she also deserves better than to die in a battle for a war she didn’t start that has already ruined her life in an unimaginably painful way.
#team black pisses me off so much#feminine women don’t need to be masculine to be important#dying in a battle is not a dignified way to die#having a violent and terrible death is not dignity it is tragedy#house of the dragon#game of thrones#team green#anti team black#Helaena Targaryen#feminism
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I deal with death a lot in my job, because I work for a nonprofit that serves a population dealing with terminal illness; even with early diagnosis, which itself is rare, the average survival rate past diagnosis is about five years. I read a lot of obituaries on a weekly basis and I know when a donor passes because I'm part of the team that alters the database record to reflect when someone has died.
Usually the death is at arm's length, both because I've had practice with that and because I don't often know these people, I don't work directly with them the way doctors and fundraisers do. But we do encourage those who are able to participate in the activity of the nonprofit -- we have a program to fund support groups, we have patients and patient families on our board, and I work events and socials where they attend. So of the roughly thirty thousand people we serve, we're in close contact with perhaps five hundred, and of those I know maybe twenty personally.
This morning is the first time someone I've known personally, more than just to nod at during an event, had passed. I found out by accident; nobody has officially told us yet, but we started receiving gifts in her memory, and I get notifications of those automatically. We knew she was in hospice; I found out when confirming her death that she fortunately had access to a legal option to choose when to end her life, and she chose to do so on Wednesday night.
Dying from the disease is a fairly horrible way to die, so I'm glad she had that option and knew when it was time. She gave a lot of her time and energy to the organization and I'm glad she finally gets to rest. But fuck, it's rough to see her name in the "In Memory Of" field of the gift listings.
I wish I could say something like "Get screened!" or "Don't ignore these warning signs!" but this disease is idiopathic and incurable; there are treatments to prolong life, but when it comes for you, the clock starts. She had as much time as anyone gets post-diagnosis. She lived a life of purpose and was a kind person and that's all there is to be said, really.
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The thematic through lines between Spinning Silver and The Scholomance drive me absolutely insane. It is so fascinating, seeing themes resurface across an author's body of work.
You've got paying for things with honest hard work (mana, Magreta's hand-sewing), VS paying them with exploitation and other people's lives (malia, Chernobog's magic clothing). You've got mothers who set up their children as bet as possible (Gwen, Silvija) VS mothers who sold them for their own gains (Ophelia, Minartius' mother). You've got monsters of endless hunger (Mawmouths, Chernoborg). You've got all our righteously angry girlies (El, Miryem, Irina). And you've got people coming together as a circle (all the circle castings in the Scholomance, the Staryk King's capture)
It's also interesting of course to see where themes don't repeat. The Scholomance has a huge focus on collective action that's not very present in Spinning Silver. And Spinning Silver has a lot to say about personal dignity, about the "thousand tiny deaths" of seeing yourself ground down by abuse, which the Scholomance doesn't say much about. But just. GOD. The parallels.
#The Scholomance#Spinning Silver#Naomi Novik#I love the theme of personal dignity in Spinning Silver#Miryem facing up to the Staryk King every time because risking death is better than letting herself be whittled down.#The 'No' that you say when there is nothing worse that could happen to you#I cry every time I read Stepon's narration. There was nothing his father could have done to him that would've been worse than killing Wanda#crying. sobbing. on the floor actually.
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always gratifying watching s1 doof talk about how he wants perry to die....you absolute goober
#why cant you accept your death with dignity and maturity#then ill just skip hop jump over to night of the living pharmacists and wow you wouldnt believe it
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I need clark stuck in a room with a fatally injured bruce where neither of them can escape, and all clark can do is hold bruce in his arms and hope that someone comes soon to help them before the love of his life bleeds out in his arms
I always think about a war movie (I think it was Monuments Men?) where they talk about being gut shot, and how long it actually takes you to die despite being fatal. There was a guy who got shot and seemed fine at first, but he slowly died in a fellow soldier's arms over about 12 hours, I think? It was brutal. That's such a long time -- it isn't the dramatic passing out and death we see on movie screens usually. You can be be gutshot and take days to die, and it's hell for you and everyone around you.
#asks#anon#tw death#tw injuries#bruce wayne#batman#dc#clark kent#superbat#superman#anyway that's all to say#that would be a very interesting fic#to make clark sit there and watch that happen#and watch bruce sit through it all trying to maintain some dignity
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I know everyone wants stories with happy endings, and they all hate when the main characters die, and insist well what's the point of the story then, it didn't matter at all! they died!
but.
I don't know. do the stories of those who die at the end not matter at all?
because if that's the case, I have news about the stories told by everyone who has ever lived in this world.
we all die at the end. we are all doomed by the narrative.
but our stories still matter.
#writing#writers on tumblr#writerscommunity#listen it can be done well it can be done poorly#but i dont get this hatred of characters dying at the end and everyone not getting their happy ending#its not about realism#its about what the author is trying to say#some characters die because they need to die#because it fulfills their character arc it enhances it#it makes a difference#and there is catharsis in understanding that sometimes people die for a good cause for a glorious purpose#we all die#isnt there relief in seeing a story where our special friends die but it mattered in the end and death was something meaningful#if it was embraced with dignity#am i making any sense#i just know my own death wont matter#i like following stories where the mc dies but#it meant something the way mine will not#and the vast majority of people do not die for a good cause or with purpose#and those who do are heroes in our reality#but why are they so reviled in fiction#let your characters deaths mean something
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Do you guys think that when Dark was dying, he knew it, and became so overwhelmed by the visceral fear of his inevitable incoming death that he started desperately pleading to Alan to somehow come save him?
A forsaken creation, dying and agonized, desperately reaching out to his creator in a last ditch attempt at salvation.
A child, begging for it's parent's help, because they're scared and they don't want to die.
#I firmly believe that the fear of death can bring anyone to their knees in the right situation#To know that you are going to die is a potently terrifying thing#To be helpless to stop it to know that there's nothing that CAN stop it#is a unique sort of mental anguish that can reduce even the most powerful of people to tears and begging#Death equalizes all as it's wrapping it's jaws around our necks#There is no room for shame or dignity in such a moment#Just your raw overwhelming terror and anguish and desperation#I believe that if the blast did not kill him instantly#he languished in agony knowing that he was dying#and cried for his creator#because it was the only thing he could do#the only hope he would've had#until even that was swept away into the agonizing realization that nothing was going to save him#and he died perhaps wishing that it all hadn't gone so wrong.#animation vs animator#animator vs animation#alan becker#ava the dark lord#Guess who has a new hyperfixation whoops its me#Have some angst new fandom I've joined
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I don’t know how to tell you that criminalizing disrespect for human life and dignity in a society where it’s acceptable to disrespect the human life and dignity of criminals doesn’t actually foster a society that protects the human life and dignity of every person, just that of the people who are Not Criminals and Good (as judged by human law).
#tower of babble#christianity#catholic#consistent life ethic#pro life#if you’re pro ‘anyone who had or subjected someone to an abortion is a murderer and should be tried as such’#you aren’t pro life. you realize the death penalty still exists. you realize what you’re advocating for. right.#my state personally doesn’t allow for capital punishment but it also has some of the worst prison abuse rates in the country#you need need need to have a society that protects human dignity regardless of human judgement.#otherwise you only care about kids. which is good! but if you can’t give them a world where their lives are respected and protected#you have no knowledge of or respect for human life and dignity.#just the lives you happen to like.
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Cursed out of Context Shit
@moociaoafterdark You know what you did
Cursed Convo 1:
The Emperor gained wealth to fund the Imperium by being a gynecologist for Daemons who also happened to run an abortion clinic. The daemons trying to get through the warp gate on holy Terra are simply trying to see if their favourite gynecologist is still working or if he's retired. They would really like to know-
Cursed Convo 2, evolved from convo 1 and the debate before:
Big E walking up to Sanguinius, whose soul is pregnant with Lilith's soul, clasps his son's shoulder: "You're my family, I'll do it for free for you, my son"
Sanguinius, unaware that one of his souls is pregnant: Father, what the fuck are you on about? Have you inhaled too much incense again?
Big E kneeling in front of Sanguinius, presses his head against Sang's stomach and whispers to Lilith's soul: "Your days are numbered, parasite"
Sanguinius, now trying to remember if he ate something he shouldn't have and now has parasites while his souls are sweating bullets
The 'Parasite' in question: *Babbling infant warp god noises*
#This is your fault moocia#now everyone else gets to be cursed by you#sanguinius#the emperor of mankind#mpreg#?#idk how to tag this#cw abortion#cw pregnancy#there's not much#just to be on the safe side#shitpost#cursed shit from beyond#warhammer 40k#warhammer 30k#warhammer shitpost#out context convos from Mutuals#I have found my match#I have found the mutual who is just as unhinged as me#this is glorius#really should I be surprised by this?#The last time we discussed pregnancy it gave birth to Sanguinius Egg preg'#I have no shame#any shame I had died a lonely death with my dignity#enjoy my rambles
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having your family members or ancestors bones stored at a museum or university to be gawked at by (mostly white) anthropologists for centuries and not even being given the OPTION to lay them to rest or give them dignity is perhaps the complete opposite of the CONSENSUAL and VOLUNTARY process of donating your body to science - to be a cadaver for medical students or to be studied for your medical conditions because that’s what you wanted to happen to your body.
I wish universities and their deans would gain 1 single shred of humility and sympathy and stop holding onto the body parts of marginalized and indigenous people at their schools against families wishes and calling it “science”
#dead people are still people an their families deserve the dignity of putting them in their final resting place wherever that may be#every time I hear about another Californian university hoarding body parts I become more insane and more radicalized#racism#death#abuse
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