I got news for y'all, NO ONE, who has been successful at ctb with N, or any other method for that matter, can tell you how much discomfort, if any, they had. I've got a sneaky suspicion that dying by ANY MEANS produces some type of discomfort, at least, based on only what dying is. You stop breathing, Your heart ceases. All your metabolic mechanisms stop. Your brain stops working. It may not last long, and again, I don't know since I have never died, but I would bet that there is some momentary amount of discomfort, or pain, when body systems shut down. I don't believe that the difference between life and death is comparable to shutting off a light. And this isn't even a good analogy because, if you have ever noticed, when you flip a light switch off, the light bulb doesn't instantaneously turn off. No, it burns still for a fraction of a second until it consumes the residual electricity in the wire. N may be the most peaceful method available, but that is based on what science knows, and what is understood, about what happens when the human body ceases to function. There will always be a "
* " next to any proclamations made about how "peaceful" a method is. That's the "unknown unknowns". I suppose YMMV.
People get operated on while under and don't feel pain so Nembutal probably doesn't hurt.
True enough. But, then again their hearts were still beating, they still had respirations, and their brains were still functioning. Even when they do a heart replacement or bypass, the blood circulation is never stopped. Actual death stops blood circulation. And you know what happens to diabetic limbs when enough blood fails to circulate to the limbs. The limb turns gangrenous. And when tissue has a lack of blood, that results in extreme pain. No one can ever know for sure how much pain someone experiences upon death.