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Dr. Philip Nitschke, the founder and director of Exit International has developed a hi-tech euthanasia device named the Sarco capsule. It is a reusable 3D-printed euthanasia machine which would let anyone end their life by the press of a button.
The 70-year-old Dr. Nitschke, popularly known recently as "Dr. Death," revealed his plans to launch the Sarco capsule next year which would be the world’s first 3D-printed euthanasia machine. It is an easy to use painless machine that would help people bring an end to their lives.
The device is designed in two parts. One part is a reusable machine base and the other is a capsule that can be detached and used as a coffin. The machine that has been developed in the Netherlands by Dr. Nitschke and Engineer Alexander Bannink, is designed in such a way that it can be 3D printed and assembled in any given location. According to a release by Exit International, the device’s design would be free, made open-source, and available on the internet.
It is easy to use the Sarco capsule. It just requires an access code. Anyone who wants to end their life is required to complete an online mental questionnaire in order to obtain a 4-digit code that will open the capsule. Once it is opened, the person can get inside and lie down inside the device and start it either by pressing a button, voice activation or a series of blinks. Once the lid is closed, the machine gets filled with liquid nitrogen which in turn lowers the oxygen level. Within a few minutes the person inside is dead. Later, the capsule can be removed to be used as a coffin.
Liquid nitrogen evaporates quickly and the gas occupies 700 times the volume of the liquid, displacing all oxygen in the confined space it expands in. But since about 80 percent of the air we breathe is nitrogen, people don't notice the lack of oxygen until they pass out, Peter Barham, a physicist at the H H Wills Physics Laboratory in Bristol, England, told the Livescience website in February. He was explaining how a sheriff's deputy in Augusta, Georgia, had died while trying to save an employee inside a sperm bank where nitrogen tanks were somehow opened.
Nitrogen, a gas at room temperature, turns into a liquid at minus 196 degrees Celsius (minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit). At that temperature, liquid nitrogen can freeze body tissue almost instantaneously and can be both painful and dangerous. But possibly the person inside the Sarco Capsule never comes in direct contact with the liquid nitrogen which would have boiled off to gas once released. Exit International said in its statement on the Sarco Capsule that death would be "peaceful."
Well...I think people should at least have the option of physician assisted suicide in all 50 states. It's horrifying what some people with no hope for any reasonable quality of life are forced to endure againt their will.
People are cruel to their terminally ill pets when they won't put them down, forcing them to die in pain. Our government is cruel to us for doing the same thing... and we're humans, capable of saying "I've had enough, let me go!"
People should have the right to die when the pain becomes too much and to die with dignity.
The link I posted is about people having the right to die in Oregon, it's one of the reasons why we might make the move out that way at some point. We watched my mom suffer when the pain became to much she begged to die. As a nurse she told us what to give her so she would pass in peace. NO ONE should go out like she did.
I support the right to die with dignity, but I don't see the utility of this device for a lot of people. You have to have a 3-D printer, and be able to assemble this thing (in the middle of your living room floor?) that is big enough to lie down in, and have liquid nitrogen on hand, before you can use it. That seems like a lot to expect from someone who is disabled, debilitated, terminally ill, and/or in a lot of pain. I don't think requiring someone to go through these contortions is exactly allowing them "to die with dignity." It also seems rather pointless when there are meds available that can provide a dignified death in a far simpler manner if our legal system can just sort out the means to supply the meds.
Well, when Govt regulated prescription opioid drugs to the point when people who truly need them to live without pain cannot get them anymore, just because the corrupt DEA are working for the drug cartels, its no wonder people want to take their own lives.
Many people say those that take their own lives are cowards or taking the easy way out, have no idea how much courage it must take to 'push that button, or take that step' that ends their lives for good. They have no idea what happens after they die or where they go, (if anywhere), and they are still THAT desperate for relief, they are willing to take that risk. A good friend of mine wanted to commit suicide, but was too concerned about a possible afterlife, he was worried that it may be possible suicide would not provide the relief he was seeking but actually make things worse, and once dead, he could not kill himself again to escape.
I doubt the sarco capsule will ever become a reality.
It's always amazing to me that people want someone else to come up with a way to end their lives.
People have been taking their own lives for ever.....we don't need gov permission for that...we don't need to be told whether it's our right or not....we don't need to make laws that give some members in our societies permission to kill....when we REALLY want it, it can happen...unless we wait too long and end up in an institution....
There's no need for any elaborate machine. A simple loose fitting plastic bag to slip over one's head and run a tube from a Nitrogen (Argon, any inert gas) canister to the bag. Turn it on and say goodbye. It would be best to do it in a room with fresh air circulation so as not to endanger anyone else that might come into the room.
The whole thing with inert gas asphyxiation is that there is no perception of what's happening. It is is the cause of a surprising number of accidental deaths because there is no warning at all that you are in an environment with no oxygen. That's because the sensation of suffocating comes from build up of CO2 in the bloodstream. If you successfully exhale CO2 with each breath, it doesn't build up and there's no sense of suffocation. You simply aren't breathing in any oxygen however when you use nitrogen to displace everything. Most of the air we breathe already is nitrogen so it's something we just naturally don't notice.
I volunteer for a real test with the sarco capsule.
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We watched my mom suffer when the pain became to much she begged to die. As a nurse she told us what to give her so she would pass in peace. NO ONE should go out like she did.
