Re: Would training be necessary? The intent is to kill her,
My 'M' 'D' experience is similar to your take.
That's not the issue here, though. The issue is analogous to the Brompton Cocktail cock-up - whereby US MDs *cannot* prescribe its most effective ingredient (heroin / diacetyl morphine) but must use the Disneyland pharm-chem PC substitutes. Data be damned: DEA + maudlin sentimentality Rulez the stunted Murican psyche.
This is about the (equally unavailable option) of using the same 2-stage process used to humanely off (other) animals - the first shot is a nice feel-good narcotic which produces unconsciousness; the second is lethal via mentioned K/Na imbalance - intentionally.
(Ms. Gray died in my arms (a neat, feisty cat - with mouth cancer from a #&^$& "flea" collar) with her face nuzzled into my hands, even before the feel-good shot. It would have been criminal Not-to have ended her suffering. But then, animals deserve the better treatment in these circumstances - they've never built a nuke, so they are morally superior, hence deserve the Best.)
It took less than 2 minutes, allowing for my insistence that she enjoy some final period pain-free, before the end.
Fundies will continue to obsess on these and all other issues, while perpetually ignoring all grander issues (like say, the 100K+ casualties of all ethnic stripes including WASP, in just our first pair of Neoconman Wars).
We see there is no solution to the latter; probably not to the former, for any foreseeable - given the demise of any sort of Representational Republic.
