Death Penalty Anesthesia

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This is not a debate about pro vs con Death Penalty.

Would you take a job performing this anesthesia?

explain this logic when performing anesthesia services during an organ harvest?

uhhhh.... the person is already dead. If you are actually in healthcare, you probably shouldn't have to have this concept explained to you.

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The idea of attracting "doctors or other medically trained people" at such dirty thing as execution is felonious and might be born only in some diseased heads. You have given Hippocratik oath not to be injurious to health of anybody!

Those "medicians" who at least once have done it have not any rules to be called by such high-minded name as a "physicians". I would never come to such "humanic doctor" for any treating and would damn him (her).

CRNAs dont take the hippocratic oath

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Okay you've expressed your opinion on this (several times) can you please drop it? It's not a "is death penalty the equivalent of abortion thread".

Why is it when I express my opinion I am told to just drop it or get accused of starting a riot? I don't see the difference in giving someone anesthesia for execution (most people who are executed is usually for murder) and giving anesthesia for someone to murder an unborn child aka embryo or zygote. If you can do one procedure then you should have no problem doing the other. I also hope we are correct in the assumption that brain dead means that the dead person can not feel anything either but I guess we will never know the answer to that for sure.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
Okay you've expressed your opinion on this (several times) can you please drop it? It's not a "is death penalty the equivalent of abortion thread".

Why is it when I express my opinion I am told to just drop it or get accused of starting a riot? I don't see the difference in giving someone anesthesia for execution (most people who are executed is usually for murder) and giving anesthesia for someone to murder an unborn child aka embryo or zygote. If you can do one procedure then you should have no problem doing the other. I also hope we are correct in the assumption that brain dead means that the dead person can not feel anything either but I guess we will never know the answer to that for sure.

I read you post more fully. The answer to your question is because the actions of one are grossly illegal while the actions of the other are legal.

UNLESS WE WANT TO LIVE IN A THEOCRACY, our laws are a result of common consensus. Things are moral - or immoral - because we, as a group, decide them to be.

Mind you, I'm decidedly pro-life. But, unless this proposed THEOCRACY is MY SPECIFIC THEOCRACY, I'd just assume pass.

I would not assist w/ an abortion; I'd lose no sleep assisting in an execution.

~faith,

Timothy.

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If you can do one procedure then you should have no problem doing the other.

That's ridiculous. We don't all have the same beliefs.

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Specializes in Acute Med, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology.

If you can do one procedure then you should have no problem doing the other.

I would not assist w/ an abortion; I'd lose no sleep assisting in an execution.

~faith,

Timothy.

well spoken, i agree with you completely. i would have a huge problem assisting in any way (other than after-care for the woman) in an abortion. because according to my belief system it is the killing of an innocent. i would not have such a problem with assisting in an execution, because it is the execution of a guilty person. someone who has murdered someone else. there is a difference.

not everyone has the same beliefs, which is why its a good thing there are so many areas of nursing. you do not have to, on a regular basis, do something you do not morally agree with (in theory).

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I lost a family member to murder. The man was suspected in 3 similar murders, but "ours" was the one the police had the best evidence for and that is the one he was convicted of. I never wanted him killed in my name. That just would have made a horrific situation worse. I wanted him locked up so he couldn't hurt anybody else.

I got my wish. I was sixteen and he has since died in prison.

I could never take a DP job. Revenge never solves anything, especially revenge by proxy.

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The person is brain dead if you are in healthcare find a new line of work

uhhhh.... the person is already dead. If you are actually in healthcare, you probably shouldn't have to have this concept explained to you.
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The person is brain dead if you are in healthcare find a new line of work

Brain dead = dead. Just because the body has viable organs doesn't make it alive.

p.s. the concept of being alive is not wholly exclusive to the discipline of healthcare

Cogito ergo sum

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explain this logic when performing anesthesia services during an organ harvest?

Anesthesia "services" during an organ harves does not mean that we provide drugs to ease pain, "put them to sleep," etc. We manage the vent, hemodynamics, etc to maintain organ perfusion. That's it. If any medications are given, it is specifically for the purpose of maintaining organ viability. No anesthetics are given.

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That's ridiculous. We don't all have the same beliefs.

I didn't say that. Ooops some how it must have picked me up as saying that. It showed my name in the quote box. Ignore.

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Really???? Show me a death certificate for someone on a ventilator

Brain dead = dead. Just because the body has viable organs doesn't make it alive.

p.s. the concept of being alive is not wholly exclusive to the discipline of healthcare

Cogito ergo sum

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