Outrageous. You want me to believe that it's humane to lie in a fucking blue capsule and commit suicide?
People need to understand that when and if you really want to kill yourself, this is often done in affect if not the individual is very psychical sick.
I don't like this. I think its ethically wrong to have people go away in a plastic box and building an actual product around that. I mean, how inhumane are you trying to make this look?
Have people go out in their own bed, have their loved ones next them and have professional medical staff help out during the process.
I think a person who's had to live in chronic excruciating pain for years is not gonna give a shit what color the freaking capsule is, if this provides them a relatively painless way out of their never ending suffering then it's their goddamn choice.
It's not up to their family, and it's not up to their friends. They can't begin to understand the anguish that person is going through and frankly neither can you.
This is to eliminate the pesky doctor from the situation.
Doctors have ethics, morals, and feelings. Doctors, at least ostensibly, agree to "first do no harm". If you take that statement literally that means doctors are obligated to not help a patient commit suicide because killing someone is ostensibly more harm than having them in pain. I know this isn't popular on HN being very pro individual liberty, and I agree people should have control over their own lives, but the inclusion of doctors presents a problem to people who want to enable anyone to kill themselves easily.
The sarco is a techno-dystopian solution. Now that the cat is out of the bag, 3d printable, and theoretically reliable, it's only a matter of time before it's used for something other than killing yourself. Or, even worse, it's used to create some new tech startup that starts to approach soylent green. Just throw a nice screen in there with images of pretty scenery and you have the "exit" in the most literal sense.
It's humane in theory because the nitrogen provides a painless death. I say in theory because this only works in theory. There have been many failed suicides directed by exit international that demonstrate the method is not as effective as they tout but no one seems to mention the quackery by EI when they talk about them.
My concern is these people walk the line between "helping the actual sick have a peaceful death" and "homicidal psychopath" and with this device I believe they are leaning far, far closer to the latter. Creating mass scale suicide devices with the specific intent to end people's lives is immoral and unethical. As stated above, it will only be a matter of time before a company decides to provide suicide-as-a-service.
> this is often done in affect if not the individual is very psychical sick
You also have the population of people who are sick and simply want to end their life.
No affect. No psychological issues.
Just the fact that you want to be in control of your life. I find this very courageous - I for one certainly do not want to be a burden for my family if I am in a state that requires them to take care of me when my brain is gone.
People need to understand that when and if you really want to kill yourself, this is often done in affect if not the individual is very psychical sick.
I don't like this. I think its ethically wrong to have people go away in a plastic box and building an actual product around that. I mean, how inhumane are you trying to make this look?
Have people go out in their own bed, have their loved ones next them and have professional medical staff help out during the process.