In a first, an American woman used a suicide pod to take her own life. The process took place in Switzerland. It’s done by pumping in only nitrogen gas, so the person will lose goes dizzy, loses consciousness and eventually dies. Enter futurama memes.

  • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    It’s a techbro solution for something that didn’t need a techbro solution. The current way of doing it is trough chemicals that induce loss of consciousness, pain relief, and eventually death.

    Active euthanasia is legal in a few countries for terminally ill patients. They have to submit to psychological tests and must be deemed fully understanding of the situation. My grandfather passed away like this a few weeks ago. He organized his own funeral and had some time with my mother and his other children.

    To try and push this “invention” and just go for it without going trough the legal processes is just bad and shows not much care by the creators.

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      3 hours ago

      Active euthanasia is legal in a few countries for terminally ill patients.

      That doesn’t seem an accurate description of the situation. Yes, doctors and nurses sometimes ‘help people along’ in their final hours or even days, that is not the same thing as the euthanasia being described here.

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        2 hours ago

        No I am talking about “active euthanasia”. Look it up. You are talking about “passive euthanasia”.