{"id":1103365,"date":"2021-12-09T16:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1103365"},"modified":"2021-12-09T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:58:45","slug":"brave-new-world-do-it-yourself-suicide-pod-may-be-ready-for-swiss-market-by-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brave-new-world-do-it-yourself-suicide-pod-may-be-ready-for-swiss-market-by-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave New World: Do-It-Yourself Suicide Pod May Be Ready for Swiss Market by Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrave-new-world-do-it-yourself-suicide-pod-may-be-ready-for-swiss-market-by-next-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1103365&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sarco-Pod-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A 3D-printed suicide pod may be ready for the Swiss market as early as 2022, according to its designers.<\/p>\n<p>Sarco, a capsule designed to induce \u201ca peaceful, even euphoric death\u201d through oxygen depletion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exitinternational.net\/sarco\/concept\/\">its website<\/a>, is the brainchild of former medical doctor&nbsp;Philip Nitschke, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-59577162\">described<\/a> the BBC as having earned the nickname \u201cDr Death\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Nitschke, who helped people kill themselves in Australia in the 1990s, aims to&nbsp;\u201cde-medicalise the dying process\u201d with the pod, the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-59577162\">reports<\/a>, \u201cremove[ing] any kind of psychiatric review from the process and allow[ing] the individual to control the method [of suicide] themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarco had&nbsp;Daniel Huerlimann \u2014 \u201ca legal expert and assistant professor at the University of St Gallen\u201d, according to the BBC \u2014 assess the legality of the pod, and he said that&nbsp;\u201cthe pod is not covered by Swiss law\u201d because it \u201c[does] not constitute a medical device\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to embrace it, you need to understand what it is, you need to think about it \u2014 it\u2019s kind of like an art installation,\u201d Designer-Sarco creator Alexander Bannink has said of the killing machine in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exitinternational.net\/sarco\/sarco-presentation-video\/\">official presentation video<\/a>, which he said was inspired by \u201ca sarcophagus\u201d in terms of its aesthetics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[H]ow can we get that machine to your doorstep or anyplace you want to die? Maybe we could utilise 3D printing; 3D printing is evolving, so we found a big machine and it\u2019s German engineering \u2014 it\u2019s just, it\u2019s perfect,\u201d Bannink said of the decision to make the pod printable.<\/p>\n<p>While the BBC referred to Nitschke\u2019s Exit International charity as an organisation which supports \u201cassisted dying\u201d \u2014 the softer, more politically correct term for what was until recently referred to as assisted suicide \u2014 the Sarco promotional video does not shy away from calling it a \u201ceuthanasia device\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/333502917?h=da9770fbdc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the first organisation the BBC listed as objecting to the pod in its article was not a Christian church or religious institution or a socially conservative organisation \u2014 these were not quoted at all, in fact \u2014 but Swiss suicide enterprise Dignitas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 35 years now, through the two Swiss Exit groups and for 23 years also with Dignitas, Switzerland has the practice of professional accompanied suicide with trained staff, in co-operation with physicians,\u201d Dignitas explained to the publicly-funded British broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the light of this established, safe and professionally conducted\/supported practice, we would not imagine that a technologised capsule for a self-determined end of life will meet much acceptance or interest in Switzerland,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>If printing your own suicide pod to kill yourself did \u201cmeet much acceptance\u201d then Dignitas might find it harder to find \u201ccustomers\u201d, although officially it is a non-profit organisation.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/31\/AR2005103101824.html\">complained<\/a>&nbsp;that Dignitas would \u201cnot disclose details about its finances\u201d in 2005 and the cost of joining and having yourself euthanised typically runs to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dignitas.ch\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=22&amp;Itemid=5&amp;lang=en\">thousands of Swiss Francs<\/a>, however.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.0397350993377\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French Council Rules to Euthanise Disabled Man Against Parents\u2019 Wishes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XhCErS8hrt\">https:\/\/t.co\/XhCErS8hrt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1121345604821499904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3D-printed suicide pod may be ready for the Swiss market as early as 2022, according to its designers. Sarco, a capsule designed to induce \u201ca peaceful, even euphoric death\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}