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.

    • erin (she/her)
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      33 months ago

      The laws are clearly outdated. Drugs for lethal injection frequently fail and cause much more pain and distress. Nitrogen has *no downsides." It’s like the fact that it’s a gas makes people crazy.

        • erin (she/her)
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          12 months ago

          I’m not arguing with your statements, I’m arguing against the content therein. Also, it’s not a productive comment to tell people discussing the ethical benefits of a reform to human euthanasia by saying the obvious, which is that it isn’t yet legal.

          And for the record, I didn’t downvote you. That information is public. The flag of Israel probably isn’t helping in that regard on Lemmy.

          • Also, it’s not a productive comment

            Yes it is. I saw people confused, thinking that all suicide was illegal. My comment created context explaining that suicide is allowed in certain ways.

            I didn’t downvote you

            I meant that more in general, not to you specifically. If you felt like I was attacking you specifically, I am sorry.

            The flag of Israel probably isn’t helping in that regard on Lemmy

            possible. But imo that makes it even worse. Comments with information and context being screamed out of the discourse because of a unrelated matter, that’s really pathetic.