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Two Charged After Woman Crawls into Suicide Box to End Her Life

The Telegraph

An American woman has become the first person to die through the use of a “Sarco suicide pod”.

Two people were arrested on charges of assisting her to use the unapproved, Dutch-made device, Swiss police said on Monday.

The 3D-printed capsule, invented by the controversial assisted-dying activist Dr Philip Nitschke, is designed to kill its occupant by starving them of oxygen as it fills with nitrogen gas.

It is not compliant with Swiss law, according to the country’s interior minister, who said on Monday that it “does not meet the requirements of product safety” and that such use of nitrogen does not comply with chemical regulations in Switzerland.

On Tuesday, Swiss police said they had arrested two people for aiding in the death of a US woman in a woodland area in Schaffhausen, a northern town near the German border. More

12 Comments on Two Charged After Woman Crawls into Suicide Box to End Her Life

  1. Suicide is not painless. I don’t care what anyone says, it is not a victimless crime because the living still has to deal with death of the person who commits suicide. I have lost too many friends and acquaintances to suicide over my 71 years. It should never be that bad that you lose all hope and kill yourself ever.

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  2. In Navy bootcamp one of our fellow recruits attempted to commit suicide during the night in the head by slashing his wrists with a razor blade. Fortunately, someone found him, and he was saved in time, but it was a very bloody mess in the head. The next day our very pissed off company commander gave us all a very graphic demonstration of how to cut your wrists properly if you attempt to kill yourself. You don’t slash across the wrist you slash down the vein and you will bleed out. I never forgot that demonstration and I still wonder whatever happened to that other recruit who attempted to commit suicide.

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  3. geoff the aardvark
    Thursday, 26 September 2024, 20:42 at 8:42 pm

    …I would be reluctant to give flippant suicide advice for the same reason I wouldnt give arson suggestions, althogh I know something of both.

    Because some fool will ignore your intent and take your “advice”.

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  4. “does not meet the requirements of product safety”. The inventors need to go back to their drawing boards and come up with a safe suicide box that meets the strict Swiss safety laws.

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  5. I’m not sure if it was flippant advice, if it is I apologize. All I know is our company commander was pissed and didn’t want to see it happen to any other of his recruits so that was his way of getting his point across. For me it stuck and showed me the value of life even when I was in bootcamp. I hope that others aren’t as foolish as that other recruit. Life is precious and a gift from God that we can’t willingly take our lives on our own no matter how bad things might suck. There is always hope.

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  6. I don’t think you were being flippant, geoff, and I don’t think SNS was being a prick.

    SNS is just saying we don’t tell people how to INIT SYS DB.

    The telco people here know INIT SYS DB, and it’s a very powerful, and dangerous command.

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  7. Spiritually, suicide is one of the worst decisions a person can make. A person’s choice to end their life by committing suicide pays a high price for eternity.
    Exodus 20:13, The Holy Bible
    “You shall not murder”
    Yes, suicide is a form of murder – self murder. A person taking their own life most likely has no relationship with God, doesn’t believe God exists or has lost faith in God.

    Although, suicide is not explicitly called a sin, the act itself is a sin because there is no longer a chance for repentance if the suicide is sucessesful. The opportunity for God’s forgiveness is lost.

    Consequences of suicide, spiritually is eternity in Hell. The same fate for all who commit murder and are unrepentant and don’t seek forgiveness.

    Harse as this seems, the judgement of Hell for the unforgiven act of murder is meant to be a deterant. A prompting for man to rely on God for his well-being despite the horrendous, desperate and painful situations in life we all face. Even with man’s tendency to do wrong, God is still merciful;
    John 3:16, The Holy Bible
    16. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
    17. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

    God has given man free will. He gave us the ability to reason and choose either to be deceived by lies of evil (Satan) or trust God’s will for our good. Through accepting what Christ did on our behalf, life becomes precious, actually joyful and affirming. The hope of God replaces the hopelessness of suicide. The choice is always up to us.

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