NY Times story on Pentobarbital, also known as the sleep remedy Nembutal, outlawed in the US and other countries but sold over-the-counter in Mexico, and its abuse by people with terminal illnesses wishing to suicide in a painless way.
Reading about this stuff I wonder to myself, why isn't this stuff used in executions in the US? Why have a mix of chemicals that are occasionally ineffective when this single substance has the capacity to bring painless, quick death?
And yeah, if I were in excruciating, endless pain I'd want an option to drink a glass of this stuff and die with dignity.
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