Suicide should NOT be as stigmatized as it currently is in modern society.
Everyone was brought into this world without their permission, they should be able to leave it in a safe and reliable way too.
'Suicide pod' is completely legal and approved for use in Switzerland
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#22Well, they need to place one such machine in Kremlin. Right at the end of one of those long tables.
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#23> "I’ve always wanted to remove the role [and the] need for professional people to prescribe difficult drugs to use Yikes. It seems like you would want a barrier to entry when it comes to legal suicide...
And why is that?
Presumably because the underlying cause of suicidal desires can be temporary, and people who end up not following through may later be glad they didn't.
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#24> "I’ve always wanted to remove the role [and the] need for professional people to prescribe difficult drugs to use Yikes. It seems like you would want a barrier to entry when it comes to legal suicide...
And why is that?
Because there's no way back from a decision that you might have regreted the day after, if you were not able to materialize easily?
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#25Can't wait until we start recycling the bodies for food.
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#26If you're worried about climate change you should be all for this. Suicide is the most carbon-negative thing you can do! Well, other than mass murder, I suppose.
What about investing time/resources into carbon removal? That's even more negativeer.
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#27you can put a bucket over your head and pipe helium into it and that will work the same. this is a waste of money. its like insult to injury
If you do it badly, you might end up with brain damage and not die at all. The whole point of such devices is to make sure it's done properly.
And not leave a nasty surprise for whoever inevitably finds you.
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#28you can put a bucket over your head and pipe helium into it and that will work the same. this is a waste of money. its like insult to injury
You also need to stabilize your head and the while body so that you do not leave the bucket for a longer time (to ensure death).
I assume that helium would not have the alert effect CO2 has - similarly to nitrogen which is probably too Henry to just it with a bucket as you describe.
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#29I think it’s funny that this page has a “If you or someone you know is struggling or in mental health crisis …” blurb at the bottom. This is like Bud Light saying “please drink responsibly”. The entire point of this invention seems to be to lower the barrier to entry to suicide, so a statement discouraging suicide seems to me a strange thing to follow with.
IIRC the Swiss assisted suicide orgs all specifically exclude depression as a valid reason anyway.
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