Death By Injection: Cruel and Unusual?

With assisted suicide becoming more vogue-ish every day using the same drug cocktail used on death-sentanced criminals, it seems absurd that those same criminals could cry out that the death is cruel and unusual. For those choosing to take their own life, or the doctors who believe that life is no longer worth living, those medications would be called kind and merciful.

So which is it?

In addition, since none of us is going to live forever, wouldn't it be delightful to know when you were going meet your maker to within oh say, a minute or two? Now that is controlling your destiny right there, right? You have only so much time to get done what you want. Yes, yes, it's behind bars, but that's besides the point. You know. Knowledge is power.

I can think of other cruel and unusual punishments: stoning, flogging, beating, setting on fire, drowning, raping and strangling, suffocating, freezing, choking, cutting off appendages, plucking out eyeballs, etc. Do I need to link to all the instances of these cruel acts? I didn't but it would be easy enough to do. In fact, in certain countries of an Islamic persuation, every one of these acts happens nearly daily without so much as a raised eyebrow--especially if the recipient is of the female persuasion.

Going to sleep and never waking up is cruel? Why do so many want that legal right bestowed on their fellow citizens? Perhaps we should withhold food and water and oxygen like happens in NICUs, ICUs and other medical facilities every day. It should only take a couple weeks to die. That's much kinder. No pain at all.