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Exit Snippet June 2025
With the spate of US nitrogen hypoxia executions, have come reports that a death by nitrogen hypoxia is a cruel and violent affair.
Yet the right to die movement has used inert gas (originally helium but more recently nitrogen) and a plastic bag for at least 20+ years. Eye-witnsses call these deaths peaceful and reliable.
In September 2024, the 3D-printed Sarco capsule employed the same science. In that death, eye-witnesses say that the death was fast and peaceful.
How can eye-witness accounts of these ‘different methods’ of death – given that all use the same science – be reconciled?
Does nitrogen hypoxia cause convulsions? The June Snippet will dive deep into these questions of reliability, peacefulness and time taken.