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Nitschke's "Suicide Machine" Draws Crowds at Amsterdam Funeral Fair

posted by fyngyrz on Monday April 16 2018, @06:03AM   
from the and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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.

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/15/nitschke-suicide-machine-amsterdam-euthanasia-funeral-fair

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• Re:Suicidal Depression Is Almost Always Curable (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @11:39AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @11:39AM (#667583)

  This suicide machine doesn't seem like it's intended for people who want to off themselves because of depression but rather for people who are perhaps dying from a terminal illness and don't want to blow away their fortunes in a vain attempt to stay alive, and would like to go with dignity and with as little pain as possible. There are many ways for people like that to kill themselves if they really wanted to, this just gives them what may perhaps be the least painful known way to accomplish it.

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