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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The elderly are a problem, law should allow murder, to this NYer. He confesses on camera.
He cashed their SS checks for 8 years.
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