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Originally Posted by KSigkid
I know what you're saying, as I've sat by someone's side as they slipped away - and that's precisely why I really don't know how I feel on this topic anymore. I hate to say "you don't know it unless you've been through it," and I think people have been perfectly reasonable in this thread, but for me, the whole experience raised more personal questions that I haven't been able to answer.
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I know someone quite well who has to make "life and death decisions" about GMO rodents...
For aggressive euthanasia, by exsanguination, she says her limit is ~10 mice. For "passive aggressive" euthanasia, by asphyxiation, she says her limit ~50 mice.
For rats, after 2, she cannot work anymore.
And after a whole process of euthanizing rodents, she cannot work anymore for ~2 days because she says the whole process is too much for her. Sometimes, she has nightmares. Especially if blood was involved or a full necropsy (an autopsy for animals).
And publish literature on the subject, especially with veterinarian care, says folks limits differ from one animal to another. Like for rodents, not too bad, but for non-human primates, euthanasia is painful to do and watch...
She says sometime you can see in their beady little eyes. And euthanasia is different for neonates mice... She does not like having to do that.
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