September 26, 2024

"The Sarco, short for sarcophagus, can also be voice-activated, so that physically incapacitated individuals can achieve suicide."

"Its inventor, a retired Australian physician known as Dr Death for his decades-long place at the vanguard of the right-to-die movement, tweeted on Monday that the (unnamed) American woman 'had had an idyllic, peaceful death in a Swiss forest.' Dr Philip Nitschke — for that is his real name — also announced, via The Last Resort, whose website describes it as 'the only accompanied suicide service in Switzerland where the 3D printed Sarco capsule will be used,' that he was 'pleased that the Sarco had performed exactly as it had been designed to do: that is provide an elective, non-drug, peaceful death at the time of the person’s choosing.' The response from the Swiss authorities has been less positive. Asked in parliament about the legal conditions for the use of the Sarco capsule, health minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider suggested that its use would not be legal, saying she doubted the device would comply with product safety law...."

32 comments:

Lazarus said...

Dr. Death? Jack Kevorkian? How soon we forget.

RideSpaceMountain said...

“It’s not worth the bother of killing yourself since you always kill yourself too late.”

– Emil Cioran (The Trouble with Being Born, 1973)

tim maguire said...

doubted the device would comply with product safety law.

hmm...what does "product safety" mean in this context?

Danno said...

The ultimate oxymoron.

Rob C said...

"An idyllic, peaceful death..."

MSGA?

Doesn't it just sound so darn wholesome?

FredSays said...

Legal assisted suicide is a slippery slope from can to should to will.

WK said...

A step away from Soylent Green…..

Ice Nine said...

We need these in our prisons' Death Rows to dispense with all the lingering "cruel punishment" appeal lawsuits.

Button on the outside...

Levi Starks said...

It seems like the legal issue is they’re cutting into the Dutch government’s death franchise.

Bob Boyd said...

You'd have to hike for days to get the same idyllic, peaceful death in real life.

MadTownGuy said...

"Asked in parliament about the legal conditions for the use of the Sarco capsule, health minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider suggested that its use would not be legal, saying she doubted the device would comply with product safety law...."

Product safety? It's a death capsule. Tim Maguire covered this, but I had to put in my 2¢.

RideSpaceMountain said...

You hear about people falling off cliffs or tripping into waterfalls and dying trying to get the perfect selfie for Facebook and tiktok. I wonder if those people ever think to themselves "I finally got the perfect, idyllic background for a selfie ever what a way to go!" on their way down.

Bob Boyd said...

I wonder if this woman took selfies in the Sarco.

Bob Boyd said...

Maybe they're worried about the guy who has to crawl in there and clean it afterward.

FullMoon said...

Would heroin or fentanyl od be economical, peaceful and reliable?

Old and slow said...

I believe that we all have the right to end our own lives, but involving other people especially physicians is ghoulish and wrong.

n.n said...

Certainly, a selfie-abortion is a personal choice that should not be outsourced nor normalized lest it be incorporated as Planned Personhood.

n.n said...

Fentanyl depresses respiratory function. Can't breathe would be a political quagmire. Brown Lives Matter

n.n said...

Warning: a selfie-abortion sarcophagus, a dark sarcasm, may cause death and other chronic conditions. The Surgeon Gender advises entertaining the performance of human rites to relieve a "burden" when punch drunk or otherwise inebriated to settle cognitive dissonance.

Krumhorn said...

The nitrogen hypoxia approach is interesting as a means of carrying out the death penalty. Nitrogen is available everywhere and no medical personnel are required as part of the protocol except for the declaration of death. No special equipment is required except for an airtight mask or bag. Alabama used it once. The prisoner put on a great performative show of pain and agony by holding his breath and thrashing around...until he finally had to take a breath.

- Krumhorn

n.n said...

A Taste of Armageddon

Climate progress and other purposes.

"You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave"

loudogblog said...

Assisted suicide is one of those ethical questions that cannot be easily answered.

Assuming that a person is of sound mind, they should be allowed to check out if they want to. But there is a great incentive to pressure vulnerable people into it because someone wants their assets or an organization doesn't want to pay for their expensive health care.

loudogblog said...

"product safety law" is one of the arguments used by people who want to sue gunmakers. They try and argue that a gun isn't safe because it can kill, but that is what the product is designed to do.

loudogblog said...

It's odd that, with all the remakes in Hollywood, that movie has never been remade.

RideSpaceMountain said...

There are unconfirmed stories out of the PRC years ago of execution vans (yes...lethal injection in China is mobile) using fentanyl as a 'lethal injection'. The cocktail of drugs in common use for lethal injection in China is still something of a mystery, but based on consistent supply/demand issues there it wouldn't surprise me in the least they use all kinds of substitutes.

mccullough said...

He should have trademarked the moniker

mccullough said...

It’s a coffin. Only Pharaoh gets a sarcophagus

Rockeye said...

Question: why shouldn't these sorts of thing be used for executions?

n.n said...

An equitable amalgamation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in an inclusive relationship. Abortion! What is it good for? Absolutely...

mongo said...

Ride Space Mountain, China has to use substitutes because they are shipping all the fentanyl to the USA.

Deep State Reformer said...

Society is progressing. No more gas cars. Take the vax. Quit eating meat. Eat the bugs. When you're old or sick, call it a life and go die. In the near future you will own nothing. Not dark yet but it's getting there. Piss Earth in full stench.

Butkus51 said...

They just need to put a "will cause death" label on it. Tax it. Problem solved.