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More disturbing details emerge about first death in suicide pod: ‘She’s still alive, Philip’
Live Action News ^ | November 5, 2024 | Cassy Fiano-Chesser

Posted on 11/05/2024 12:51:44 PM PST by Morgana

As an investigation into the death of the first person by way of Philip Nitschke’s “Sarco” suicide pod has advanced, disturbing details have come to light — such as how the woman was found to have serious neck injuries resembling strangulation marks. Now, more information is raising even more questions.

In September, an American woman was named as the first to have used the suicide pod with help from the Last Resort, a Swiss affiliate of Exit International, which created the Sarco device. Florian Willet, co-president of the Last Resort, was present when the woman died, and has been detained by Swiss police. Criminal charges are possible.

Volkskrant published information about what the woman’s last moments were like, which were also captured on video, apparently in an effort to promote and normalize assisted suicide. After the woman pressed the button to activate Sarco, the compartment was flooded with nitrogen gas, causing nitrogen hypoxia. Essentially, the machine causes death by asphyxiation. Willet claimed the woman was unconscious within 30 seconds, but within less than three minutes, the motion-activated camera turned on.

The window to the outside, which was fogged up, suddenly had a dark spot on it; Willet said it was likely due to the woman’s body cramping, and her knees hitting the window. At just over six minutes in, an alarm began to sound. Willet, who was on the phone with Nitschke throughout the whole process, seemed concerned.

“She’s still alive, Philip,” he said on the phone.

Ultimately, it appeared to take 30 minutes for the woman to die. “She had her eyes closed,” Willet said. “And she was breathing very deeply. Then her breathing slowed down. And then it stopped.”

Nitschke insisted this all went according to plan, despite how long it took for the woman to die, and the continual movement of her body. “It looked exactly as we expected it to look. My guess is that she lost consciousness within two minutes and that she died after five minutes,” he said, adding, “We saw sudden, small contractions and movements of the muscles in her arms, but she was probably already unconscious by then.”

Death row inmate Kenneth Smith died in January through nitrogen hypoxia, a method which Nitschke said is peaceful. Howeer, Jeff Hood, Smith’s spiritual advisor, was present for Smith’s death, and described it as “torture.”


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1 posted on 11/05/2024 12:51:44 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

People used to jump from high or stick their head in a gas oven. Now it’s gone trendy hi-tech?


2 posted on 11/05/2024 12:54:13 PM PST by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: Morgana

LOL! They make sure they get the job done, in whatever way they most enjoy.


3 posted on 11/05/2024 12:54:54 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Morgana

Satanists when they find out you're still alive after offering them your soul....

4 posted on 11/05/2024 1:00:20 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Morgana

Devil’s agents on Earth…


5 posted on 11/05/2024 1:02:32 PM PST by exinnj
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To: Morgana

The Swiss are good at business, the fact that apparently there is no window you can see through or a camera is a great way to prevent lawsuits from people going through torture in their agony booth. No witnesses and the victim’s dead.


6 posted on 11/05/2024 1:02:38 PM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: Morgana

Does she get to pick out her favorite scenery and colors for death viewing and will her body be dumped into the food mill??


7 posted on 11/05/2024 1:04:27 PM PST by small farm girl
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To: pepsi_junkie

Open the pod bay, Hal.

I can’t do that Dave. She’s not dead.


8 posted on 11/05/2024 1:10:44 PM PST by job
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To: Morgana

What’s with people? You can get heroin almost anywhere. Get a hefty dose and it’s lights out. No fuss. No muss. Or morphine. No pain. A handful of downers.... off to sleep. There’s no need for pods and fancy complex gadgets. The people who invent these things are sick.


9 posted on 11/05/2024 1:10:49 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Morgana
I have heard that some states are researching nitrogen asphyxiation as a method of execution. Seems that drugs for lethal injection are getting hard to obtain.

Nitrogen has been touted as a clean, humane and instantaneous way to die. What if it's not?

10 posted on 11/05/2024 1:23:25 PM PST by ZOOKER
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To: Morgana
Why do they need a contraption? Life is fragile as it is.

The George Floyd Memorial Fentanyl Suicide Pill is all they need. Works everytime.

“I can't breeve …”



11 posted on 11/05/2024 1:25:50 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: ZOOKER

I don’t care if it is humane to someone getting the death penalty.

They lost that privilege when they inhumanely killed another.

As they chose that death for an innocent, they obviously ruled it was an acceptable way to die, for them.

Consequently, it can’t possibly be inhumane to kill a murderer in the same, or different, way.


12 posted on 11/05/2024 1:27:33 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Morgana

sounds about as bad as the electric chair.


13 posted on 11/05/2024 1:27:33 PM PST by BigFreakinToad (just remember the Harris algorithm runs at 3 am.)
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To: ConservativeMind
I don’t care if it is humane to someone getting the death penalty.

Each to his own, I guess. In my mind, the sentence of death is enough without adding torture. I really don't see the point in that.

That said, what's the most humane method? Drugs? Firing squad? Old fashioned hanging? Guillotine?

14 posted on 11/05/2024 1:49:53 PM PST by ZOOKER
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To: Morgana

In the case of Kenneth Smith, he was a vindictive and malicious individual and probably feigned agony to extract some measure of revenge. Nitrogen hypoxia has been used to euthanize stray animals for decades. On advantage is that it does not involve toxic chemicals and based on experience of people who have survived nitrogen hypoxia it is painless. (Smith apparently held his breath for four minutes, which would have been a painful experience itself. Knowing you are going to be executed is painful.)


15 posted on 11/05/2024 1:50:29 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: Morgana

Have you seen “5 Days at Memorial?” That doctor killed at least 23 people with morphine injections. And she walked away free as a bird and is still practicing medicine. Sick people.


16 posted on 11/05/2024 2:00:51 PM PST by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Could have been worse.


17 posted on 11/05/2024 2:02:13 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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18 posted on 11/05/2024 2:03:42 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Morgana

Should have used nitrous oxide.


19 posted on 11/05/2024 2:27:57 PM PST by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: ZOOKER
Seems that drugs for lethal injection are getting hard to obtain

no worries - just call the Border Patrol for some of the thousands of pounds of fentynl they've confiscated

20 posted on 11/05/2024 2:51:53 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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