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.
It’s less expensive to do it ISIS style and throw people off the roof.
Does it have a coin slot, like the suicide booths on Futurama? The inventor could be missing a money-making opportunity.
9mm? Or 40 caliber?
I think Dr. Philip Nitschke should have to personally test drive his invention prior to public use.
“You drink it” https://youtu.be/eUh5IShNwXo
can we get one of those delivered to the DNC?
Kavorkian 2.0.
In “Futurama” there are suicide booths everywhere. Presumably because you can’t die naturally. People get tired and just wear out. What we see here is the same thing, but with slick marketing, which is the problem with legalized suicide. Years ago, a marketing professor came up with a formula that said if you invested X dollars in a marketing campaign, you’d get Y dollars back in profit. To prove it he said, “We’ll sell rocks.” Thus, was born the “Pet Rock.” The profit exactly followed his formulae and they made, IIR, four million dollars.
A suicide kit has been on the market for probably a decade. It’s a plastic bag with a drawstring and an attachment point for a small cylinder of nitrogen. You put the bag over your head, draw the string tight, attach the cylinder and turn the valve. It’s 100% effective in delivering cheap, painless death. Your body’s protection system is a sensor in the lungs keyed to react to carbon dioxide. It can’t sense nitrogen, which is some 70% of the air we breathe.
The only reason for this slick machine is marketing. Next, we’ll be reading about people “just dying” to try out the latest new fad. It’ll be all over TikTok.
I was just wondering how they got Jill Biden to pose for that picture...
Sounds like the device would be perfect for capital punishment.
Betting it probably works just as well whether the victim answers verbally...or anyone else answers in the place of the victim.
I should not be finding this hilarious….
I guess 76-year-old Dr. Philip Nitschke thought it was the Hypocritical Oath.
Just one?
Good point
God help us all...
>> “And if they press the button they will die very quickly,” he told the Daily Mail.
He didn’t mention a “CANCEL” button...
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