> "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?
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#12I 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.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, buddy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
More realistically chronically ill, mentally ill, and disabled people will be increasingly pressured into this "alternative" by the medical and welfare systems, as is already happening in canada. Exactly as predicted years ago by disabled people, exactly as dismissed then as a slippery slope. It's not a fallacy when there's prior art!
I'm curious to learn more. Do you have any references re. Canada?
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#14This is the next best Swiss "invention" just after IoT urinals with LCD... or perhaps make them watch ads in the capsule as well? Just one last ad, they're going to die anyway.
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#15If 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.
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#16you 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.
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#18Finally, can't wait to the time they will legalize suicide centers with these pods where everyone, without any reason at all other than wanting it, can easily, quickly, reliably and euphorically end this non-sense called life.
People with dependents are one case that comes to mind when considering why this might not be a great idea. Elderly people with no dependents are one example I can think of why this might not be the worst thing in the world.
But in general I tend to agree that there should be some means to humanely end ones own life that doesn't automatically presume insanity. I think there's probably a reasonable middle ground to be had between the extremes of whenever and never.
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#19I’m happy that this exists, and now I’m sad that I’m happy about it. I need to make some changes in my life.