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First woman dies in ‘suicide capsule’ in Switzerland (www.volkskrant.nl)

submitted 1 month ago by Philosofuel@futurology.today to c/futurology@futurology.today

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In a first, an American woman used a suicide pod to take her own life. The process took place in Switzerland. It's done by pumping in only nitrogen gas, so the person will lose goes dizzy, loses consciousness and eventually dies. Enter futurama memes.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 21 points 1 month ago

I know you mean well, but you don't provide solutions of any kind. Simply saying the equivalent of "we should be better to fellow humans" isn't going to change the world. It's a platitude.

How do you propose we help the people currently suffering? We just let them suffer until society figures out how to help them? Unite arms and block suicide machines because "they are an easy way out and we should be helping them instead"? Sure, you're absolutely right, we should be helping them all now, but that's not how change works. It's not immediate. While we figure this stuff out, a bunch of people are going to suffer and die painfully.

Also, even if the cynical ending is "the government promotes suicide to get rid of the weak", I'd argue it's better than suffering until death.

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