Posted on 06/10/2025 7:49:41 PM PDT by Morgana
The inventor of the Sarco suicide pod is building a 'kill switch' implant which could allow dementia sufferers to seal the time of their death years in advance.
Dr Philip Nitschke, whose controversial capsule ended an American woman's life in Switzerland last September, has told MailOnline that his newest device is nearing the testing phase.
His plans have been labelled 'disturbing' by critics, who argue that enabling people to trigger their deaths with a simple switch could have serious consequences for individuals with various mental and physical health conditions.
The mechanism would be sewn into a person's body - most likely their leg - and contain a timer which would make a beeping noise and vibrate to warn them to turn it off each day.
If they failed to do so due to deteriorating brain function in the late stages of the disease, Nitschke says, it would then release a lethal substance into their system to kill them.
The assisted dying campaigner believes that his new device could solve the 'dementia dilemma' - the situation whereby someone suffering from the disease is seen as lacking the mental capacity to consent to their death.
While he admitted there were 'very real problems' with the switch that his team would need to overcome, he predicted that it would 'work well enough and be reliable enough for people to see it as the answer to a very, very difficult problem.'
Alistair Thompson, a spokesperson for anti-euthanasia group Care Not Killing, responded to the news: 'This is yet another chilling development from Dr Death who brought us the personalised gas chamber.
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What could possibly go wrong...
Dr. Phil, if you abort them before they’re born, there won’t be any need for your stupid implant.
Who else will be able to trigger it. Any electronic device can be hacked.
Awful. 😡
“First, do no harm.” So much for that, huh?
I can see them implanting it in old people routinely when they visit the hospital for something else. And of course there will be a government "back door".
This is mass murder of the elderly being prepared, and that's not even getting into the ethics of assisted suicide.
“Soylent green is people.”
Jack is back !
Soon, installation of such will be universally mandatory.
And if they were tied up or couldnt move/immobilized and couldn’t turn it off...unconscious....
Oh no, I see absolutely no problems with this one bit
/super sarc
People sure spend a lot of time thinking how to kill off people.
Why couldnt he spend time developing a device which has a skin contact membrane that dispenses over the day, known nootropics so that the body absorbs helpful known substsnces that support brain health and function?
Now the motto is “First, do no healing.”
Just to be sure it works, let’s test it on Joe!
Logan’s Run.
Logan’s Run…. When your crystal in your hand goes dark you turn yourself in to be liquidated…
An implant that kills you could have "serious consequences?" Like... maybe... death? Well okay, Elena, thank you for clearing that up. LOL!
I think that is already doable with some pacemakers.
reminds me of this story i read decades ago.
Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” is a 1965 dystopian science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison
These people love to kill the old, the young and unborn, but shriek like children when you think of executing the true murderers and guilty.
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