This is so dumb I can’t get my head around it. Put a man in a chamber, flood it with N2, painless, easy death. Hell, he even gets to go out high as a kite!
Are we all so ignorant that this isn’t obvious?! FFS, I remember a tragedy where two teens died fucking in a giant helium balloon. They didn’t know they were dying.
CO2 overload is what triggers the choking/suffering response. Our bodies have no way to detect a lack of O2. We’ll happily breathe any non-noxious gas, as long as it’s not CO2. Hypoxia don’t sound like a bad way to go. .45ACP to the skull comes a close second, but I’d like to fade out stoned, given the chance.
Signed: Old guy with mild emphysema from smoking 20-years. I don’t get short of oxygen, I get short trying to pump the CO2 out.