Sentence examples for experience of suffocation from inspiring English sources

The fentanyl and diazepam "may be trying to block the experience of suffocation," said Joel B. Zivot, an Emory University anesthesiologist who has served as an expert witness in legal challenges to execution protocols.

Madeline Cohen, an attorney for Warner, said he was executed with a drug that is "not approved for general anaesthesia" and "because Oklahoma injected Mr Warner with a paralytic tonight, acting as a chemical veil, we will never know whether he experienced the intense pain of suffocation and burning that would result from injecting a conscious person with rocuronium bromide and potassium chloride".

"Because Oklahoma injected Mr. Warner with a paralytic tonight, acting as a chemical veil, we will never know whether he experienced the intense pain of suffocation and burning that would result from injecting a conscious person with rocuronium bromide and potassium chloride," Cohen said.

Anxiety or fear of suffocation was also experienced by some.

Physical reasons mentioned in the interviews were the experience of acute or chronic pain, suffocation, chronic nausea, incontinence, smelling wounds, ulcerations, drowsiness, etc. Psychological reasons were anxiety, feelings of sadness, loss of perspective and hope, and the fear of being confused, unable to make decisions, becoming dependent on nursing care or being 'hooked up to machines'.

Ten percent of people experience such a strong spasm in their larynx that they die of suffocation without the water reaching their lungs.

Because similar contortions of the spine and neck occur when modern animals experience trauma, he has argued that a fossil's opisthotonic posture could indicate that the animal died of suffocation, starvation, poisoning or other brain injuries.

In general, they felt insecure about the dying process, afraid their symptoms would not be controlled toward the end of their lives and that the experience of death would be that of conscious suffocation.

The workers died of suffocation.

Of the group, 123 died of suffocation.

Affected animals sometimes die of suffocation.