Friend accidentally drinks assisted suicide cocktail!

[doughmixer1982]

Death with Dignity: When the Medical Aid in Dying Cocktail Gets into the Wrong Hands - JEMS: EMS, Emergency Medical Services - Training, Paramedic, EMT News

This is a case presentation on how Denver Health medics navigated the moral, legal and medical decisions on a death with dignity call gone awry.

www.jems.com

 

[mortuarymary]

Death with Dignity: When the Medical Aid in Dying Cocktail Gets into the Wrong Hands - JEMS: EMS, Emergency Medical Services - Training, Paramedic, EMT News

This is a case presentation on how Denver Health medics navigated the moral, legal and medical decisions on a death with dignity call gone awry.

www.jems.com

I'm lost for words. Least the other guy was saved. What a stupid thing to do unless it was his intention all along.

 

[Life_and_Death]

"dont go on suicide forums!!!"
"heres the exact amount of each medication you need"

 

[Suicidebydeath]

Am I crazy to think that MAID should be administered under controlled conditions? It seems crazy to me that this was allowed to happen in the first place. This can't have a good look, which would make it a step backwards.

Seems obvious to me that the younger man also wished to ctb, if not, they are certainly crazy as well. I don't think it was accidental unless somehow the dwd elder guy invited everyone to his death party but neglected to mention the details, which would be even more insane, such as "this drink is the lethal one", so it surely wasn't an accident.

Wait... what?

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

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

nationalpost.com

It happened TWICE??

The one I linked is a separate but extremely similar and more recent case, that happened almost identically, except with a 37 y/o instead of a 35 y/o.

 

[soleil]

Am I crazy to think that MAID should be administered under controlled conditions? It seems crazy to me that this was allowed to happen in the first place. This can't have a good look, which would make it a step backwards.

Seems obvious to me that the younger man also wished to ctb, if not, they are certainly crazy as well. I don't think it was accidental unless somehow the dwd elder guy invited everyone to his death party but neglected to mention the details, which would be even more insane, such as "this drink is the lethal one", so it surely wasn't an accident.

Wait... what?

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

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

nationalpost.com

It happened TWICE??

The one I linked is a separate but extremely similar and more recent case, that happened almost identically, except with a 37 y/o instead of a 35 y/o.

It looks like the same story but the age is an error.

I feel like it was intentional, why tf would anyone test it out knowing what it was for.

 

[Thanksforeverything]

"After his first swallow, he remarked, "Man that burns!" The younger man said, "Let me see," and then also took a swallow."

What in the name of fuck is this supposed to mean?

 

[Gonnerr]

Im pretty sure its not an accident.

He might have said to himself , the perfect exit solution, that opportunity might never show up again.

Or he is just plain stupid.

 

[doughmixer1982]

The bottle contains digoxin 100 mg, diazepam 1,000 mg, morphine 15,000 mg, amitriptyline 8,000 mg and phenobarbital 5,000 mg.

 

[Suicidebydeath]

It looks like the same story but the age is an error.

I feel like it was intentional, why tf would anyone test it out knowing what it was for.

It looks like it, but the older story OP posted was in Colorado, and the more recent one in Denver, with about a year in between them. Perhaps it's a copy cat. Denver guy read about what the Colorado guy did and decided to repeat history.

 

[intr0verse]

It looks like it, but the older story OP posted was in Colorado, and the more recent one in Denver, with about a year in between them. Perhaps it's a copy cat. Denver guy read about what the Colorado guy did and decided to repeat history.

I'm not from the US, but isn't Denver in the state of Colorado?

 

[Suicidebydeath]

I'm not from the US, but isn't Denver in the state of Colorado?

It's the capital. I assume the distinction is because one was in Denver, and one was not. Colorado is pretty big, they don't both have to be in the capital. Maybe they both were, maybe they don't know, the original story doesn't mention where in Colorado it took place, and there is a stock photo used, not necessarily a correct photo. I'm just quoting the article.

"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."

Could even be the same guy, maybe it was slightly longer than a year and he had his birthday. I'm kidding but who knows, it's almost certainly not, but that it is even possible is almost ironic in a way. The last thing we would expect is that it's the same person.

I don't think either of these incidents were impulsive, they were probably planned. There's always going to be more people that want MAID than are given access to it.

 

[mortuarymary]

In Holland they come round your house and do it.

 

[rozeske]

Fortunately he didn't die accidentally from it. Let's hope that one "sip" has atleast cured his stupidity.