Why are many accidental deaths referred to as "instantaneous" when most technology used in capital punishment requires seconds, if not minutes, to kill a person?
Why are many accidental deaths referred to as "instantaneous" when most technology used in capital punishment requires seconds, if not minutes, to kill a person?
I understand what you're saying...Karrie...I think...but I disagree...
If you're asking me to believe that we couldn't drop a ten ton block of concrete on a human being and that that death wouldn't be instantaneous....I have my doubts....
The question is I believe attempting to elicit consideration of why we use particular language in particular situations...
Death is Death Karrie...
If you're suggesting that some psychological "closure" can be effected if the remains are nicely clothed and lain out in a five thousand dollar casket....or their burned and put in an urn to sit over the fireplace....then yes, the event, the phenomenon of death....might be important...but it's important to the living.....and the personalizing of how that death occurred...
By the way...
Using medical procedures to extend the period over which a human being can be held between death and being alive....that would be more inhumane than squashing somone in an instant..????
how one dies arrives at the nexus of lethal cause and circumstance or combination of events and conditions that results in death...can be different and varied but the person killed...the person who dies....that person is dead Karrie....
In my life I have seen a couple of "instantaneous" deaths.
Brutal stuff to have to witness juan. I'm sorry you went through that.
I knew both men and I lost a lot of sleep over these incidents......We are talking about almost forty years ago. I'm sure today, we would have some kind of counselling and a week or two off the job for anyone witnessing this kind of accident.
I'm sorry Karrie but semantics is the theme of this thread.
Is your decision that a family of Afghanis or a family of Iraqis or anyones family for that matter are killed more "properly" if they're burned to death in their beds...or shot as they attempt to escape the flames....
The manner of bringing death...capital punishment....war and homicide...all result in death....that's why it's such a nasty thing to have to deal with I suppose...
You have created for yourself a sub-category of the morality issues regarding the death of some person that is somehow related to the manner and "rationale" behind that death....
The notion of instantaneous....in an instant when we execute a felon or employ capital punishment as the choice of our courts and legal system...is loaded with both semantical and rational and philosophical and religious and and and....
And you believe that the choice isn't imporant is that the flip-side?
We quite frankly don't care if they die quickly or not....
Just so long as they're dead...