Woman Euthanized in Belgium Heard Screaming by Loved Ones as She was Suffocated by Pillow

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Your faith in thegatewaypundit.com is even worse.

I'm not the guy who posted that, but I completely agree with him. That's not to say that none of this is believable, but the language of the article betrays a very clear bias and message. The sequence of events is similarly unlikely, individually sure, but in series? I really don't buy it.

What I have noticed with a lot of news stories over the past decade is if you strip out all the biased language, you can usually piece together a story based on the facts presented alone. Using common logic tools like Occam and Hanlons razor lets see what we get from this.

Facts

  • The woman was diagnosed with a terminal illness and chose to end her life.

  • She took the cocktail designed to kill her and she didn't die.

  • A Nurse suffocated her with a pillow while she screamed in pain.

Now let's look at those facts in a slightly different light.

  1. She takes the cocktail and it doesn't work. No execution method has ever been fool proof, people have survived nooses, electric chairs, firing squads and the cocktails taken for execution. In fact this is a known problem with lethal injection especially and bureaucratic red tape is known to be what has kept them from adopting the same cocktails used for animal euthanasia which is known to be more effective, but will still not be 100% and may react extremely differently to different people.

  2. So let's say she took them of her own volition and by random circumstance she had a bad reaction. It happens. She may be screaming from pain from a painful bad reaction, or she may be screaming because she's high as all getup, or maybe she's screaming because they took her off her normal pain meds in order for this cocktail to have a better chance of success.

  3. A compassionate nurse realizes the right thing to do is to assist and help her end the suffering faster. This happened with hangings too, sometimes there was someone there to pull down sharply after a failed drop to help snap the neck and prevent suffering. In slaughter houses even when they try to use humane methods there is often a person wirh a club, or a captive bolt pistol or even a traditional firearm to finish the job when the "humane" slaughtering methods fail. This nurse may have been something of a hero in that case. They were willing to do what no one else would.

Notice this story changed NONE of the facts and paints a very different, but also infinitely more likely scenario.