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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 Re:Suicidal Depression Is Almost Always Curable (Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 16 2018, @06:59AM (3 children)

  by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday April 16 2018, @06:59AM (#667538) Homepage Journal

  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!

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• Re:Suicidal Depression Is Almost Always Curable Re:Suicidal Depression Is Almost Always Curable (Score: 5, Insightful) by zocalo on Monday April 16 2018, @07:24AM (2 children)

  by zocalo (302) on Monday April 16 2018, @07:24AM (#667542)

  And yet just the other day I was reading about how those nice caring folks over at Goldman Sachs (or soulless scum, YMMV) had done a study [arstechnica.com] that showed that one-shot permanent cures wasn't a financially sound business model compared to on-going treatment. Clearly this isn't going to work out at all well for the likes of Martin Shkreli and the other money sucking leeches in Big Pharma since it doesn't get much more one shot (or cylinder of gas, lethal injection, etc.) than a Suicide Booth. Won't somebody think of the PROFITS!?

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  • Re:Suicidal Depression Is Almost Always Curable (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 16 2018, @11:27AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday April 16 2018, @11:27AM (#667579) Journal

    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.

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  • Re:Suicidal Depression Is Almost Always Curable (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:32PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @12:32PM (#668010) Homepage Journal

    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]

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