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Euthanasia advocate displays 'Sarco', a pod that fills with nitrogen, which he hopes will one day be available as a 3D-printable device
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Called the "Sarco", short for sarcophagus, the 3D-printed machine invented by Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke and Dutch designer Alexander Bannink comes with a detachable coffin, mounted on a stand that contains a nitrogen canister.
"The person who wants to die presses the button and the capsule is filled with nitrogen. He or she will feel a bit dizzy but will then rapidly lose consciousness and die," said Nitschke. The Sarco was a device "to provide people with a death when they wish to die," Nitschke said.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday April 16 2018, @06:41AM (9 children)
Most folks just need to take The Strange Pill [warplife.com]. That'll set you right up.
In rare cases you might need Shock Treatment [warplife.com] or Electro-Convulsive Therapy.
Most psychiatrists regard ECT as far safer than antidepressants because Happy Pills take as long as two months to take effect. Quite commonly certain antidepressants won't work at all for a given patient so every two months you need to try a different drug until you can feel your depression start to lift.
By contrast, ECT works immediately. There's no danger of suicide as there is when one waits so long for antidepressants to work.
I think Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation [musc.edu] is FDA-approved now and starting to come into common use.
TMS is much less invasive than ECT. The skull is an effective electrical insulator so a very high voltage is required for ECT to work. When the voltage is high enough for a current to flow, that current will be very high and wide, which leads to permanent memory loss.
An old friend had ECT, with the result that she had no clue who I was when I started texting her again. But by then she had grown accustomed to complete strangers dropping quite suddenly into her life.
The skull is transparent to magnetic fields. A short, focussed oscillating magnetic field is used to induce current into much smaller, carefully selected parts of the brain.
A study of nuns found that if you use TMS to stimulate their temporal lobes, the nuns will feel the presence of God.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @06:48AM
I hear also lobotomy works wonders...
(Score: 1) by tftp on Monday April 16 2018, @06:50AM (4 children)
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 16 2018, @06:59AM (3 children)
Our wonderful HealthCare Industry has a treatment for everything. But some of those treatments are VERY EXPENSIVE. Euthanasia machines could save us a lot of money!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by zocalo on Monday April 16 2018, @07:24AM (2 children)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 16 2018, @11:27AM
Goldman Sachs is not a very good business model for the rest of us, either. Why incur their transaction fees when computers can do it all so much better and faster, without the chest beating and nauseous triumphalism? That those guys get paid that kind of money for, at best, looking at numbers on an Excel spreadsheet that they probably didn't even enter is the acme of absurdity.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:32PM
If you can’t take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it’s all over. I believe in universal healthcare, single payer. It works in Canada. The government's gonna pay for it. But we're going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it's going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything. I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses. #MAGA [twitter.com]
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Monday April 16 2018, @08:17AM
Based on a number of sites dedicated to a certain kind of entertainment, temporal lobes are the wrong ones to stimulate and, again, TMS is the wrong kind of stimulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @11:39AM
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @03:45PM
I wonder how many people's suicidal depression is caused not by a chemical imbalance but from being forced to live in a fucked up world with fucked up people who refuse to stop fucking it up. I know if all you fucked up people would stop fucking up the world it would certainly make my outlook on life a whole lot better.