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
A suicide does not meet standards for safety? Some governments have way too much time on their hands.
https://iotwreport.com/switzerland-approves-new-suicide-machine-with-detachable-coffin-lets-you-kill-yourself-anytime/
AvE released his review yesterday:
https://youtu.be/T7S-8Rai-Mk?feature=shared
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.
“Be like Europe,” the left always says. Well…they’re consistent…consistently stupid.
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.
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”.
“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.
Why travel to Switzerland? Put a gun in your mouth, head in the oven, or get dirt on Hilary.
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.
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.
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.
“Suicide is painless. It brings on many changes…”
I don’t think suicide(*) is so much a rejection of God’s mercies as the result of a diseased mind – a mental illness, if you will.
(* not to be confused with Japanese-style culturally-approved ritual suicide)
And I could be wrong.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Tim-FJB, you make a great point. God loves the people suffering mental illness. They are not forgotten in His Word and His mercy extends to them. For example;
Matthew 11:28, The Holy Bible
“Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.”
Jesus, Himself suffered a mental breakdown at the Garden of Gethsemane. Abandoned by His disciples and betrayed, he decided to trust God through what he chose, yes, chose to face. He found peace in His Father’s will;
Matthew 26:36-46 The Holy Bible NKJV
The Prayer in the Garden
36. “Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.”
37. And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
38. Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”
39. He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”
40. Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?
41. Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
42. Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.”
43. And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
44. So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
45. Then He came to His disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46. Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand.”
Through Christ God suffered all that we suffer and has empathy. Although even in a situation of mental illness induced by demonic oppression or physical mental defect (chemical imbalance, etc.) our will still is a factor. Yet, God is merciful. He alone determines how much a person’s will is involved in an act of sucide. Exceptions are up to God.
Too many people don’t know how much God loves them and wants to relieve their pain. That’s why it’s so vital Christians let hurting people know there is a survivable, life fullfilling, loving option through Christ that makes suicide completely undesirable and unnecessary.