• YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    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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      7 days ago

      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.

      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        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.

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          7 days ago

          There wouldn’t have been a drowning without the ketamine… should we keep listing other examples?

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            7 days ago

            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.