Given the same thing happened after the accident at Tokaimura in 1999 (referenced elsewhere in this article), where Hisashi Ouchi was kept alive for 3 months (with emphasis on kept, he was resuscitated numerous times when his heart stopped, despite the increasing levels of body horror), I doubt there was any point to it other than 'We can keep him alive, so we must'.In truth, a far greater concern was the development of cancers/health issues over the following decades rather than immediate death. Mind, most of the exposure was at least mitigated, even for the firefighters, by the treatments they had at the time. There is also the matter is that you did have an international team of doctors working on the patients.

The public execution of your own citizens is very bad for morale, even in the Cold War Soviet Union.I'm sure Yuvchenko was happy that he was not put down despite receiving what was statistically a lethal ammount of radiation, for example. ARS is also not as clear cut as it may seem.Even in 2019, most countries don't allow euthanizing people with terminal illnesses. That could be said about countless people dying in hospitals in slow and incredibly painful ways.Putting them out of their misery sure would have been more humane. A more cynical take might be that allowing the radiation sickness to run its course had medical/analytical value. In real life it's because in 1986 there was no legal euthanasia. In the show it's because they didn't do it in real life.Was there any point in keeping any of the control room ops and firefighters alive who were dosed with THAT much radiation after they've given their testimonies in Episode 3, and real life for that matter? I know the USSR wasn't the pinnacle of humane treatment, but if those people were going to die in the most painful way imaginable, surely a few bullets to the head would be a mercy?.

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