A 3D-printed pod, intended for use in assisted suicide, has successfully passed a legal review in Switzerland and should be ready for operation in the European country next year.
Euthanasia is legal in various European countries, with 1,300 people having had recourse to the procedure in 2020, according to data from its two main assisted suicide organizations.
Service-users’ lives were ended through the ingestion of liquid sodium pentobarbital, which puts patients into a deep coma before their passing away.
But Dr Philip Nitschke, the developer behind the sci-fi-evoking Sarco capsule is suggesting another approach, promising his clients a swift and peaceful death without any drugs.
His pod achieves its goal by being filled with nitrogen, rapidly reducing the concentration of oxygen and killing the person inside through hypoxia and hypocapnia.
The user of Sacro will feel a little disoriented and may feel slightly euphoric before they lose consciousness, Nitschke explained, in an interview with website SwissInfo on Saturday.
He also said death is brought about in 30 seconds through this method, and that there is no panic, no choking feeling before the spirit leaves the body.
The machine is activated from the inside, and the person in the capsule can press a button “in their own time” without needing assistance, the Australian doctor said.
The pod is also mobile and may be transported to any location of the patient’s choosing – be it a special assisted suicide facility or an idyllic outdoor setting.
The legal review of the technology, which started last year, has now been completed and, Nitschke said, we’re very pleased with the result, which found that we hadn’t overlooked anything. There are no legal consequences at all.
The third prototype of the Sarco pod is currently being 3D-printed in the Netherlands and should be ready for operation in Switzerland in 2022. The program to print the capsule would be made available online and that would allow it to be used around the world.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2021.
A very sick society hiding behind something doctors usually did for patients. But only as a last resort. Not to get there fingers on a family members assets
Who knows?
Switzerland never heard that human spirit is inpredictable, if you want suicide today does not have to be case tomorrow, very bad country assisted by the Netherlands?
The Netherlands is always involved in these kind of horrific matters?
Coming soon on Amazon. Cans of nitrogen spray. Go into bedroom, close door, lay in bed and spray room with nitrogen for a painless exit from lives miserable existence.