Posted on 12/21/2025 4:58:36 AM PST by DFG
It's a fresh Monday morning in the quaint city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands, and a group of elderly guests are listening attentively to the words of an Australian physician.
Dr Philip Nitschke, the first doctor in the world to administer a legal, lethal voluntary injection, and the inventor of the controversial Sarco pod, is presenting his latest gadget.
The Australian-born founder of Exit International, the non-profit that provides guidance on assisted suicide, stirred controversy in 2024 when a woman ended her life using the so-called suicide pod, in apparently the first case of its kind.
But undeterred by the negative press and people repeatedly calling him 'Dr Death' - a nickname he doesn't enjoy - Dr Nitschke is as passionate as ever about expanding access to euthanasia.
The 20 attendees are gathered for one of the 78-year-old's 'Exit workshops' that cover, according to his website, legal issues surrounding euthanasia, the physiology of death, and suicide methods such as 'gases', 'drugs and other substances', 'Swiss option (including discussion of the Sarco)', and 'the new Kairos Kollar'.
It's the Kairos Kollar that Dr Nitschke is live demonstrating to his observant guests, but on a plastic mannequin with silver hair, of course.
It works by putting pressure against the carotid arteries and baroreceptors in the neck, cutting off blood flow to the brain and causing the wearer to lose consciousness before dying.
In a post on X, Dr Nitschke could hardly conceal his excitement for the developing technology: 'The Exit Kairos Kollar, an important development in the assisted dying quest…fast, reliable, drug free..and, importantly, unrestrictable!'
The death workshops tend to be three hours, including a tea and biscuit break as well as an extensive Q&A with the euthanasia expert himself.
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It’s absolute terror and your vision goes.
Do not recommend.
Temu will have them first.
It aught to be shaped like his hands because that’s basically what it is.
It’s call choking them to death. Why not just an instant guillotine?
This raises the larger philosophical issue: should sane but suffering people be allowed to die if they so wish?
Or does the government own your life? What about folks in extremis in constant severe pain?
… just so no one starves to death.
“..He kinda resembles that ghoul Kevorkian....”
It’s the “death look” brought on by demon possession..
Demons never die. They just just transfer on to a new host.
.... and snacks for the family in the lobby. The green crackers are the best.
I like the ones in Running Man
**I really know nothing about jujitsu**
I was a high school wrestler. But it was about 25 years later that my two sons started learning Gracie Brazilian Jujitsu, thanks to a CD-ROM sold by the same.
I messed up once when practicing with eldest son, who was around 15 and getting close to my size. He got me in a sleeper hold. I was getting lightheaded as he responded to his mother yelling: “Let him GO! You’re gonna kill your DAD!!
He never got me in that situation again.
Messy
What happened to the guy who was going to build the rolloer coaster of death? That might be an interesting way to go.
“Temu will have them first.”
yeah, but the Temu ones will be like playing Russian Roulette, killing you only SOME of the time ...
“It won’t be long before you will be able to find one at your local Goodwill store.”
makes sense: the surviving family probably won’t want to keep ‘em when they clear the house out ...
So there’s a bit of sport involved.
😆
Our own Dr Mengele. Why isn’t just giving a patient an opium overdose more humane?
Probably doesn’t want to get them addicted to opioids.
…..briefly
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