I hate how they keep saying it was the “acute effects of ketamine” that killed him when it’s clearly the drowning that did it. As far as I know it’s very rare for someone to die from ketamine overdose by itself, which is what “acute effects” would imply.
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I hate how they keep saying it was the “acute effects of ketamine” that killed him when it’s clearly the drowning that did it. As far as I know it’s very rare for someone to die from ketamine overdose by itself, which is what “acute effects” would imply.
Right, like how people don’t die from driving drunk. It’s absurd that we say that. It’s obviously the effects of the car crash that did it.
Disagree. That’s a level of pedantry akin to “it wasn’t the fall that killed him, it was the sudden stop.”
There wouldn’t have been a sudden stop without the fall.
There wouldn’t have been a crash without the drunk driving.
There wouldn’t have been a drowning without the ketamine… should we keep listing other examples?
So if he drowned after drinking in the hot tub, would you say he died from alcohol?
Alcohols effects yes
Sure.
He didn’t die in a plane crash, he died in a rapid unscheduled disassembly of his organs due to extreme blunt force trauma.
He didn’t die due to smoke inhalation, he died due to a lack of oxygen.
Sure.
He died not because of death, but because he stopped living.
Makes you think.
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Advocates of living hate this one, simple trick.
Ftfy
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