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		marginalia_nu on Oct 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes tol... Some people say suicide is never justified, but I don't believe people who say such things comprehend the horrors of acute radiation poisoning.

jonstewart on Oct 3, 2022 [–]

That was my reaction reading about the accident in Japan. Anyone who gets a guaranteed lethal dose of radiation like that should be given a large mercy dose of morphine to kill them so they don't have to endure their skin falling off. It seems inhumane to keep someone on life support in such cases.

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