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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rick Stallard" data-source="post: 35977" data-attributes="member: 3166"><p>I have not read about it that way. We have no way of knowing what anything feels as far as a pain, using this method, except for a human. It's well documented that when a person dies, (from written notes left behind) or is in a near death stage, they all say it was warm and peaceful and all they wanted to do was go to sleep. Human tissue starts to freeze before death, but they don't mention pain, just the opposite. I really doubt there is any pain involved.  I collected and raised snakes for almost 20 years before getting into Ts. I had many die. Some go to sleep and never wake and others would twist and roll like in pain, but I really believe that was just involuntary muscle contractions. It's like when a chicken or a snake has it's head cut off, what does it do, it twists and rolls all over the place, but no head, no brain,,,no pain.  I could never hit and kill any of my Ts, I just could never do it. I have heard of gassing them, like we did with rats to feed the snakes. Even that seems a bad way to go. So, I guess if you want to end it the quickest way, a blow to the head would be the way, but I like the freezing. Lets all hope having to make that decision is not a common one.</p></blockquote><p></p>