• saturn57@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    It highly depends on the process. Suffocation is likely to cause distress while I would doubt that using a stun gun could cause any pain or distress if properly calibrated. Of course, errors are not uncommon in the real world and significant issues occur when stunning is unsuccessful.

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      14 days ago

      Depends on how the suffocation was performed. The body responds violently to it only because of the buildup of CO2, the natural byproduct of respiration that we exhale. Basically, the body knows we are breathing because we aren’t experiencing a build up of the byproduct, i.e. we are inhaling and exhaling.

      Yet, if you were to be placed in an environment where the oxygen was replaced with another, inert gas then your body won’t trigger the response, as you are not producing CO2 buildup; you would become lightheaded and eventually just pass out. This is why things like carbon monoxide poisoning is so deadly, because your body doesn’t have the suffocation response to it.

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        14 days ago

        Yes, this is true. The reason I said likely is that CO2 is frequently present in the gas used to suffocate animals.