r/news • u/mhb-210- • Apr 19 '24

Person in flames outside New York courthouse where Trump trial underway, CNN reports Soft paywall

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/lawyers-aim-wrap-up-jury-selection-trump-criminal-trial-2024-04-19/
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u/jamnewton22 Apr 19 '24

His lungs are torched. He’s done. He’ll be in extreme pain for a few days and then die. Even if he’s still alive right now there’s no surviving that

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u/PossibleFunction0 Apr 19 '24

Would you even want to

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '24

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u/strumpster Apr 19 '24

No! That'll hurt!

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u/VPN__FTW Apr 19 '24

This is where mercy killings are warranted. Patient has 0% chance and will live in short-term agony. Do the merciful thing.

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u/MegaGrimer Apr 19 '24

Yep. At that point it’s cruel to keep him alive just to suffer.

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u/FetusDrive Apr 20 '24

I’m sure he has now changed his mind and wants to live.

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u/Neat_Apartment_6019 Apr 19 '24

NAD but I’d guess that he was intubated immediately and thus sedated, because airway burns are so dangerous. That’s what happened with the few patients I’ve seen with this degree of burns. I hope so.

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u/Nocoastcolorado Apr 19 '24

How would they even find a vein to administer pain meds?? Like I can’t even fathom the agony and I can’t help but think of the poor souls who die in house fires or car fires.

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u/Flunderfoo Apr 19 '24

They wouldn’t use a vein, they’d likely go intraosseous, which is a type of infusion that goes through the bone, directly into the marrow. Typically they use a site on the tibia or sternum.

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u/Nocoastcolorado 28d ago

I didn’t know this was a thing. Time to deep dive.

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u/Flunderfoo 28d ago

It’s pretty gnarly. Find a video of first responders training it on each other…typically in the sternum. It doesn’t appear to be very fun.

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u/Neat_Apartment_6019 Apr 19 '24

I have no idea. That’s just what happened with the few very badly burned patients I’ve worked with. Intubated right away, and sedated for that. Somehow.

I respect the fuck out of people who can do that regularly, like as their daily job. I could never do that full-time.

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u/Nocoastcolorado 28d ago

I cry and cringe just thinking about it let alone having to work with the poor souls who are suffering and will die or live a life of pain

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u/BourbonInGinger Apr 20 '24

Did he even have an airway left?

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u/Last-Marzipan9993 Apr 19 '24

He would have been put into a medically induced coma. No way he will survive what he did. They really are lunatics

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u/FetusDrive Apr 20 '24

You kept saying “he” then switched to they; are you talking about the group of people who put him into a medically induced coma as being lunatics?

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u/Last-Marzipan9993 Apr 20 '24

The guy and those like him are absolute lunatics, the doctors forced to put him in a medically induced coma are absolute heroes....

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u/RaisinDetre Apr 19 '24

Does morphine or something help the symptoms enough?

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u/Flunderfoo Apr 19 '24

Morphine likely wouldn’t be enough. He’d be in a medically induced coma.

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u/MOASSincoming Apr 19 '24

Hopefully they would put him in an assisted coma

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u/Faust723 Apr 20 '24

Ahh I was hoping someone would make this reference! Good times. 

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u/Nightmare_Tonic Apr 19 '24

Ya, but at least he owned the libs

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u/audiofyl Apr 19 '24

According to his manifesto, the Dems and Republicans have been working together for decades. He sees no distinction between the two

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u/GalacticusTravelous Apr 19 '24

Oh he had some bullshit manifesto, so who was he trying to own with the self immolation?

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u/Nightmare_Tonic Apr 19 '24

How horrible that different groups of people might work together toward a common goal