Right around 10 seconds.<\/p>\n
If I’m right, and it is always possible my perceptions were even then faulty,<\/p>\n
it took PC about 10 seconds to pass on. We had been in the room about 15 minutes<\/p>\n
or so, waiting for a mild sedative to take effect to calm him, Tatsumi, Kimiko<\/p>\n
and I… all sniffling, all miserable. Oddly though, it was something I drew<\/p>\n
strength from. We were not strangers in a room upset about a cat… we were an<\/p>\n
odd sort of family and we were upset about <\/i><\/b>our cat, that<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
we<\/i><\/b> had to let go.<\/p>\n
Then the doctor had a needle in a vein in his leg, asked if we were ready (we<\/p>\n
sniffled yes) and he slid the plunger in. It took him about 15 seconds to<\/p>\n
finish… and I think it was at most 10 seconds after that till he said "he’s<\/p>\n
gone".<\/p>\n
Another one; gone.<\/p>\n
I shouldn’t be surprised at the speed… now that I think about it all the<\/p>\n
big things happen in a very, very short amount of time… seconds or less in<\/p>\n
fact. You either act or not, speak or not, know or not. Whatever it is your<\/p>\n
supposed to do or not do at that point – there is always a split moment in time<\/p>\n
when it happens… or when it doesn’t. The plunger begins to move… and in the<\/p>\n
final analysis that<\/i><\/b> is when the story was scripted… not in the<\/p>\n
10 seconds that follow.<\/p>\n