Posted on 12/31/2014 2:30:07 PM PST by Morgana
A Baltimore anesthesiologist who made national news as "The New Doctor Death" held the hands of six elderly Marylanders as they asphyxiated themselves with helium and then covered up their suicides, officials said in a state order they filed this month to strip him of his medical license.
The suicides are among nearly 300 nationwide that Dr. Lawrence D. Egbert said he helped to arrange as an "exit guide" for the right-to-die group Final Exit Network.
Egbert and several colleagues were arrested in 2009 amid an undercover investigation in Georgia, but he has avoided any punishment there or in another case in Arizona. He awaits trial for allegedly assisting in a suicide in Minnesota.
The Maryland Board of Physicians, which conducted a two-year review of his actions in the state, said they were unethical and illegal and revoked his license.
Egbert, 87, said he plans to appeal. Board officials would not say whether they referred Egbert's case to law enforcement, and no law enforcement official reached by The Baltimore Sun would confirm an investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
One of yours..
If someone is that intent, why not send Junior to the welding supply to buy a tank and be done with it? Why not spare junior and have one delivered?
Why all the rest?
Oh...Agenda.
Helium is expensive. 99% Nitrogen gas is much cheaper. Most welding supply stores carry bottles of nitrogen.
The doc is 87. Maybe HE wants to die.
Sounds like we have a winner for a humane method of execution for convicted murderers.
He should have claimed they were “Post Term” abortions.
Helium, eh?
So they exit stage right sounding like Alvin the Chipmunk?
Lol, so they do.
87 years old? Sounds like he needs to be approved by the death panel. He wouldn’t object, would he?
Only six?
Too far below quota!
Interesting.
See his photo at the link?
He looks great for 87!!!
I have long avocated nitrogen asphxyiation as a means of execution. It is painless, all natural (the atmosphere is already 70% nitrogen), 100% effective and simple to administer.
It requires:
1 medical breathing mask
1 regulator
1 tube between the regulator and the nitrogen supply
a supply of nitrogen (welding gas)
a brain wave monitor is optional.
The procedure is to turn on the regulator to supply 1.1% atmosphere of nitrogen and wait until the brain wave monitor goes flat (between 5 to 10 min). Works for all sizes, sexes, and sanity.
I guess it’s just like those people who die from bad heaters?
Less painful than that.
The human body recognizes both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide build up in the blood stream. People who have been poisoned by either and have been brought back, tell of painful side effects. Since the atmosphere is already 70% nitrogen, there is no physiological detection for excessive nitrogen - actually oxygen deprivation.
The material data safety sheet for Nitrogen asphyxiation tells of rapid and unanticipated unconsciousness. From the MSDS - Exposure to atmospheres containing 8-10% or less oxygen will bring about unconsciousness without warning and so quickly that the individuals cannot help
themselves.
http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/nitrogen.pdf
You guys are freaking me out tonight! How do you know all this?
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