Posted on 07/18/2024 7:48:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
An assisted suicide device dubbed the “Tesla of euthanasia” is facing backlash after it was set to be used for the first time next week in Switzerland.
The pod, named Sacro, created by 76-year-old Dr. Philip Nitschke was scheduled for use sometime next week in Switzerland, according to Metro. However, prosecutors are now reportedly fighting to ban its use, the outlet reported.
While voluntary assisted suicide is legal in the country, some are questioning if it’s idealizing death, with some pro-life groups arguing the pods “glamorise suicide,” the Daily Mail reported.
The pod is supposed to fill with nitrogen and rapidly decrease the oxygen level inside while still maintaining a low level of carbon dioxide, providing “the conditions for a peaceful, even euphoric death,” according to Sarco’s website. The process is supposed to take roughly 10 minutes, Metro reported.
The process is also filmed, and the footage is later given to a coroner, the outlet reported.
Blick, a Swiss tabloid, reported that the Schaffhausen public prosecutor’s office began investigating the pods and said “serious legal consequences could arise” if it were to be used. Prosecutors reportedly say those who assist in someone’s death with this device could face up to five years in jail, according to the outlet.
“There is no reliable information about the method of killing,” public prosecutor Peter Sticher reportedly said in a letter to Nitschke. “[It is] completely unclear who has control over which mechanical process during the dying process.”
Nitschke explained the process in great detail in a 2023 interview with the Daily Mail.
“The person will climb into the machine, they will be asked three questions and they will answer verbally – ‘Who are you?’, ‘Where are you?’ and ‘Do you know what happens if you press the button?” he told the outlet. “‘And if they answer those questions verbally, the software then switches the power on so that the button can then be pressed.”
“And if they press the button they will die very quickly,” he told the Daily Mail.
Ye olde giullotine is prolly the most humane execution device for the headless ones.
This is absolutely horrifying.
You are incinerated by the lithium batteries?
It could be even funnier to use nitrous oxide instead of nitrogen.
Modern day Dachau pod. No.
I don’t remember the booths in Futurama. Wonder if the show kept going after I stopped buying the DVDs. LOVED that show.
Yes, I did buy a pet rock. And I DID pet it. No idea where it is now. Might be lost among all the other rocks I picked up along life’s pathway to remember places. Stopped picking up dirt after husband ridiculed me for picking up dirt at the Kentucky Derby track.
Remember sitting with a friend at a Dunkin’ Donuts, who is a fervid advocate of suicide (but hasn’t yet, thank goodness), and hearing her describe buying that device while struggling to maintain a calm exterior so that she wouldn’t stop talking to me about how she was feeling.
We need those in our Universities and COlleges for the TDS snowflakes...
“Remember sitting with a friend at a Dunkin’ Donuts, who is a fervid advocate of suicide (but hasn’t yet, thank goodness), and hearing her describe buying that device while struggling to maintain a calm exterior so that she wouldn’t stop talking to me about how she was feeling.”
People who talk about suicide want one of three things, affirmation, to be talked out of it or sympathy. Here’s a thought. So many people who want to commit suicide want to take someone with them that it’s dangerous to be around them. People who commit suicide often kill their pets, their spouse and their children. Occasionally, they kill others too.
…but it will be deemed cruel & unusual for capital criminals.
If a TDS snowflake student uses one, does the university give a partial fee refund for the ‘unused’ portion of the semester?
“And if they press the button they will die very quickly,” he told the Daily Mail.”
WARNING:
1. Murder is a mortal sin
2. Those who commit murder commit mortal sin
3. Mortal sin if left un-repented of at time of death, ensures the sinner eternal anguish and torment
4. If you kill yourself, that is murder, and you ensure yourself of an eternity of anguish and torment, far from God’s glorious presence.
So where is there any comfort in his machine?
How about an elevator? One floor down you get sucked out and ground up. One floor up, you think it over some more with fresh ground burger. Not tip requested.
I had a priest who was a teacher in high school. He said that the general attitude toward suicide as a mortal sin had softened a bit. One, the speed of thought is really really fast. The suicide may change their mind in the split seconds before death, therefore negating full consent knowledge and will to commit the sin. Two, the person may be mentally hindered, insane, depressed, not in their right mind etc. so again negating the full consent knowledge and will. Basically i got that only a full on “middle finger” to God despair with witnesses to same was the only way to commit the mortal sin. YMMV.
Maybe they could bring a thousand of these for the 2024 democrat election night watch parties.
Nah, I’m too claustrophobic for that.
Speaking of pet rocks, our beloved pet rock, “Pebbles”, had to be put down last year after developing stage 4 lichens. My wife still cries about sometimes.
Just like a Tesla, it will get you there alright, but the return trip is a little iffy ...
“Speaking of pet rocks, our beloved pet rock, “Pebbles”, had to be put down last year after developing stage 4 lichens.”
You win post of the day.
Nah. Capital punishment needs to be painful.
Euro-sickos are obsessed with death.
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