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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.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mhajicek on Monday April 16 2018, @08:13AM (4 children)
What does 3D printing have to do with it? If all you need is a reasonably air-tight container to put a person in there's no need for 3D printing, and it can be done much faster, cheaper, and easier by other means. No doubt someone asked if 3D printing could be incorporated for publicity.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @08:42AM
Just pull a plastic bag over your head and then strangle yourself with a blockchain...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by zocalo on Monday April 16 2018, @10:57AM (1 child)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday April 16 2018, @02:06PM
I've got to agree with the GP that 3D printing is entirely extraneous. Perhaps a bit of buzzword publicity. The hardest part of the whole procedure is likely to be getting a canister of nitrogen, once you have that and an oxygen mask you're good to go. Or ditch the oxygen mask for a bag over your head - all you need is a confined volume in which you can easily displace the oxygen with slightly over-pressure nitrogen, for long enough to ensure you die after loosing consciousness, since waking up with severe brain damage from non-lethal oxygen deprivation is unlikely to be a satisfying conclusion.
I'm disappointed that the article chose to include a photo of a man in a VR headset rather than of the actual booth - because it seems to me the one thing a booth could actually offer over a DIY solution is a pleasant setting for your transition.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday April 16 2018, @05:00PM
The purpose of using Nitrogen is to avoid the panic caused by CO2 buildup...which the "put a plastic bag over your head" would ensure. Personally, I think it should be a mix of Nitrogen and 5% Oxygen, or perhaps a bit more, but no CO2 so that you go out in the rapture of hypooxygenation. Fighter pilots who survived it said that it was quite enjoyable. (Many didn't, because they lost control of their planes so thoroughly that they couldn't recover when they got low enough for normal breathing to work. This was quite awhile ago, when they were still working out the bugs on the air systems...that they didn't know were there.)
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