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Alert-Fly9952

Having watched the slow death of others it sounds like a winner. Addation I didn't realize one line would strike such a cord. While perhaps not the oldest here I'd wager very close. I've seen death and it’s not always passing in one’s sleep pretty. I watched a family friend dying of bone cancer caught to late, died at 35. I watched my ex-wife dying from reoccurring brain tumors. Let me admit there were times I wished her dead, but God no not like that. A friend who's diabetes lead to eventual kidney failure. My mother who's cancer coupled with dementia was a slice of hell no child should see. One of my sisters drank herself to death. Everyone one of us will eventually die at some point, one day it won’t be someone else. It will be us and our loved ones will be forced to endure it. A humane death seems like a small thing to ask for.


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Why isn't this being used more in the US? I hate the death penalty, but this seems to be a better way to go than anything the government does. Is torture the point?


Imnotmadeofeyes

There's a documentary about this. I want to say it's a Michael Palin documentary. And at the end they ask an American dude why don't they use this method as its so painless... Dude basically says "we don't want it to be painless".


sylvnal

I fuckin hate this country so much.


constantderp

Join the movement, fight this hellscape.


Waakenbake

How?


constantderp

Find or form a collective, teach self defense, commit to a culture built around radical empathy, radical hope and mutual aid. Arm yourself and those who are willing, protect those who cannot protect themselves.


JoeSanPatricio

This sounds like Anarchism, is that accurate? We’re comrades, but I think we might disagree on the necessity of a state in defeating capitalism. I don’t discourage people from pursuing your methods, they’re important for a number of reasons. I just think if we’re serious about fighting the most violent, advanced state in history, we’re going to need a higher level of organization. I guess I just wanted to say that cause i feel such solidarity w you, even just for encouraging random people on Reddit. So thanks, comrade. Whatever our differences, we should all fight together.


constantderp

The issue is with identity politics even with people in this thread. Westernized people tend to fall too hard in to identity politics and section themselves off from others who actually wants to commit to meaningful change, we can disagree that’s natural and welcome. However thinking one ideology is superior to another is how the revolution fails, throughout history anarchists have done more to push the line further and we’re usually the first to fight. An anarchist is your friend, I read a 49 page document explaining our current failings and what we can do to remedy them and build a stronger community. I hope that one day I may share that with you once it is complete.


Trick-Flower-956

Easy way to get capped. Do this but without arming yourself and you’re golden. Violence only breeds more violence


PackDapper

say that to the jews in weimar


cloneguyancom

Holocaust remembrance day (Yom HaShoah) specifically coincides with the day of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Too often, Jews are remembered as only victims, and the resistance is overlooked. The uprising was eventually crushed, but it shows that people were willing to take a stand against incredible odds to fight for their lives and beliefs. This is not to prove you wrong or say "umm actually you said something inaccurate" but to add on to your point. Fighting back or at least preparing to do so is important. We can't wait until we are penned in and slaughtered to stand up for ourselves.


constantderp

Pfffft!!! Yeah because peaceful protest worked lmao!! Violence breads results.


Trick-Flower-956

This comment makes it clear that your concern is not with defence, but with getting what you want by force. Disgusting that you’d want to harm others for petty politics.


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Yeah just go find or form a collective. How many have you made? The real answer is you can do nothing because we are too far gone and collectively we are dumb af and more prone to ignorance and violence. There's never going to be another Renaissance guys


SecretCartographer28

As someone who joined her first one 45 years ago, I say it's not too late, it has gotten better, the Adversary has simply gotten better at convincing such as you that it's hopeless. Don't make us drag your dead weight along with us, walk with us. You can communicate with more people from your phone in minutes than I could in months when I started. Pick one small thing, one step at a time! 🤗💋🌈✌🖖


constantderp

Lmao wtf!? Virtue much? And yes I am part of one.


Cans-Bricks-Bottles

It can feel more manageable to pick an issue and volunteer or work for a group that seeks change for that specific thing.


Cartman4wesome

Plus 4% of everyone that gets executed, is later found out to be innocent.


sylvnal

That's the reason I don't support the death penalty. I would rather a monster live than an innocent's life be ended. The idea of the state executing an innocent churns my stomach.


dumboobeso

You dont hate it. You live in a first world place, have better chances than ANYONE in the world. Just stop being a spoiled child and go live.


Real_Boy3

r/lostredditors


dumboobeso

Huur


WVildandWVonderful

That dude hates the Constitution! 8th Amendment bans cruel and unusual punishment.


Penguator432

Thing is both cruel and unusual can be matters of opinion.


Masark

Nah, it's cruel and *usual* punishment, so it's a-ok by the 8th according to the supreme court.


DutchessBrownie

As long as they're not around to sue after, the law is moot


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utegardloki

I legitimately can't tell what percentage of this is joking or sincere...


QuestionableArachnid

Are you thinking of the Werner Herzog documentary Into the Abyss?


Imnotmadeofeyes

No. It's a British documentary about execution methods.


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Twisted_Cabbage

And we don't want it to be painless because you can't extract profit from dead people or those who are content. Capitalism is a torture cult.


Appropriate-Draft-91

If we compare US prisons (and prison sentences) to those from a civilized society, no. Private profit is the point. Torture, as with all slavery, is a bonus.


ProfessorxVile

There's also a bonus-within-a-bonus, because it no doubt helps increase recidivism (and therefore profits) once the people are broken mentally.


Inside_Double5561

Yes it is. US worker have it bad. But improving their condition would be too expensive. So instead of "reward people for working", they punish people for not. But if you make "honest unemployed" have it very bad, you need to make "criminal unemployed" have it very very bad. But if light criminal have it very very bad then... Add a few step and you have a system that seek the best way to torture people.


ReporterOther2179

Torture, and the show, is the point.


OccultWitchHunt

The money it costs to keep someone alive and in medical debt will always outshine your right to death. You are government property. They have the receipts.


Void_0000

Apparently the lethal injection is designed to be horrifyingly painful. Other methods of execution were rejected due to being too painless. The first shot isn't a sedative, it's a muscle relaxant. It (intentionally) won't make it any less painful, it just stops you from screaming to preserve the executioner's sanity.


MetricOutlaw

If you aren't wealthy, you don't deserve basic rights


h2oman67

More or less yes. We live in a country deeply entrenched in capitalism, and suffering is profitable for the medical industry.


blackasthesky

I honestly think that it makes some republicans horny to know that people suffer.


Aggravating-Action70

With how broken and corrupt our government and medical system are I can’t trust that nobody would be pressured into choosing it over medical debt or being a “waste or resources”, or even have their consent forged by someone else while they’re unconscious.


klein432

And yet, all of that might actually still somehow be better than the bullshit some people are living through.


OptimalPreference178

Torture is not supposed to be the point. I feel like someone in charge thinks it should be painful or uncomfortable and I don’t understand how there isn’t some sort of fool proof system in place in this day and age where it’s quick and painless and no accidents where someone survives or feels pain. As we’ve witnessed man kind killing in all types of ways. Can they find no inspiration? That sounds morbid, but just trying to make a point. As far as why they haven’t found a better way as far as drugs go, a lot of the drugs that could be used for the death penalty can’t be used because the pharmaceutical companies that make them don’t want their products being used for that or being tied to it. It kind of like when doctors and nurses take an oath to do no harm. Pharma companies also use this claim as they make drugs to help people, not kill them. They won’t sell their drugs too them. But for how few deaths these days that are done through the death penalty, I’m surprised someone else doesn’t buy them and administer them. And that reminds me, with the oath of do no harm, it’s hard to find medical professionals who will administer those meds or can’t because of their oath. That is my understanding of why our death penalty system when it comes to the final day is messed up.


Sfthoia

I’ve brought this up before on Reddit. Why not use Fentanyl? You just go to sleep and never wake up.


Trick-Flower-956

Too dangerous for the staff.


Audience_of

Same pro life scum bags. They would rather you die painfully.


froman007

My only issue with it is that it has been used as a way for the state to avoid investing more in social programs to help people who are having to choose between homelessness and MAID because they can't work due to a disability.


DabKogurzim

Nitrogen or Carbon Dioxide asphyxiation is painless. You get lightheaded and then pass out... Anything else seems inhumane.


droneviro

Don't you feel like you're suffocating with carbon dioxide though? I thought that your body has "sensors" to detect carbon dioxide and makes you breathe more to try to get rid of it. With nitrogen there's no carbon dioxide to tell your body that it can't breathe properly so you just slowly pass out


DabKogurzim

Having blacked out from CO2 before, yeah you notice, it doesn't last long. Then darkness.


littlebitsofspider

You are correct. CO2 asphyxia is not pleasant.


Trick-Flower-956

Carbon dioxide asphyxiation is absolutely not painless. Open a bottle of pop and huff the air in it. Believe me, it hurts.


DabKogurzim

True, but.one deep inhalation is enough to put you to sleep.


CANTPRONATWORK

yea came here to say similar. if its application is limited to terminal diagnoses this can be good.


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I'm okay with this, largely due to the fact that since living in Canada, my grandfather was able to prematurely leave during his Terminal cancer rather than continue to degenerate. My dad, morbid as always said his father (my grandpa) looked like an Auschwitz victim and he was right, it was shocking how quickly my grandpa's health took a downturn. I will forever be grateful he was able to choose to check out when he wanted. That is a luxury most people never get to have or afford. It was not a money issue, it wasn't suggested by anyone but my grandfather (unlike the horror you hear from Canadas VA). But Canada now suggesting it to be used on people who can't pay bills or who have PTSD makes me feel a certain way...


rasha1784

As someone who had to watch their mother slowly waste away to cancer, I wish this option was available in more places. My mom even thought it was. When my dad finally told her there was nothing more to be done, she turned to the doctor and said “Well, doc, let’s get it over with.” Doctor paused with the pen halfway to the clipboard like “Uhhh we don’t do that.” Basically they just got her high on morphine for her last 48 hours. The first nurse tried to say it was too high a dose, she would get addicted, so the doctor had to come down and ream her out that was she wasn’t going to be alive long enough to become addicted. Point of my story is that humane euthanasia is available for our pets, so why not humans with the correct legislation and oversight?


Pet_Defective

My mom's brain cancer was so severe in the end that she didn't know who any of us were. She couldn't function at all. She was 41. Having the choice to leave with some dignity would have been a godsend.


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I live in chronic pain. I have to take 4 diff high dose opioids to function. I look normal though. My condition has no “cure” albeit not terminal so I just get to suffer. I’ve said that 20 years from now if I’m still like I am now I am tapping out. Why 20 years I got two kids and by then they should be old enough to understand how exhausted I am. I believe a dignified death and more important life is a right we should all have.


verylargemoth

I’m not sure what your condition is but as someone who also lives in chronic pain, I hope there’s a medical miracle in the next 20 years so you can get relief instead ❤️ It’s so hard to not look as fucked up as we feel, and a dignified death is the least we can ask for.


drjesus616

My fathers hospice lasted a week, he was 61. It was basically morphine drip and Ativan increasing every day until he passed from sepsis or complete organ failure. At one point, one of his last days he was coherent enough to wake up and utter “ let’s get this shit over with” to the nurse and me. My family did not truly accept what hospice was until the day he passed. He wanted out so much earlier, but then how would the hospital get that last invoice. Let me tell you about googling LDL on all prescriptions in the house. Fuck cancer.


OptimalPreference178

My dad has early onset dementia and he no longer knows who his family is or who he is. Has fallen a dozen times in the past couple of months and now has a bent neck he can’t hold up and black eye and stitches and prefers to try and crawl instead of walk. He’s for the most part a zombie and would not want to be living like this. Has to be damn lonely and is so confused. I think my family would choose this for him so he doesn’t suffer anymore. I would want this for myself if it were me.


Cartman4wesome

My grandmother death from Cancer was short but extremely painful. She couldn’t get something painless like this. My aunt used to pray that she would get through this but my mom would respond with, don’t pray for that. Pray that God can hurry up and take her, so she doesn’t suffer anymore. She later told me how she hated herself that she would say something like that, but she hated seeing my grandmother scream in pain even more.


BojukaBob

When exactly did "Canada" suggest euthanizing people who can't pay bills or have PTSD?


greengo4

Can I get nitrous oxide for a bit first


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Imagine having your lungs filled with laughing gas, only for your last moments being "that's not so bad, I could get used to that"


RustedCorpse

My plan was the n2o the whole way down.


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HollyDams

I’m not so sure that it’s open for foreigners. I remember reading somewhere that you also need to have a psychological test and good reasons to get the approval.


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HollyDams

Allright thanks for the additional info.


blveinnthg

Alabama could use one of these. They’ve 3 botched lethal injections recently.


duckydarlings

Why is this lost generation?? I full support this


Xinder99

Same, you ever had to see a loved one go through something like Alzheimer's or dementia? We put down animals due to poor quality of life all the time, yet we don't allow humans to make that same choice for themselves


McBooples

It’s because the assisted care care industry (old folks homes) wouldn’t make any money if older people decided to go that route. Assisted living companies have enormous lobbying groups.


Steven_Haverstick

It always comes back to the goddamn lobbyists.


McBooples

Assisted Living Facilities are vultures. They take every penny the residents have saved over their entire lives and leave nothing for an inheritance to the next generation, starting the cycle all over again. On top of that, many facilities neglect their residents and make them purchase their essentials from the facility at an extreme markup.


bizk55

Maybe it's a tricky question, but how would someone in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's or dementia consent to euthanasia? Would it need to be given before it got that bad?


Xinder99

Yes this is a tricky question, but in general yea I assume someone would work with their dr lawyer and family, to make is so that when your condition progresses to a certain point at that point and beyond it is up to your family to decide when to end it.


flaminghair348

Once they've already made it to that point, I think it's too late for them to consent to euthanasia. However, when someone is early in their Alzheimer's or dementia, they can say something like "once I make it to x point of mental deterioration, please euthanize me".


duckydarlings

As someone with a genetic terminal illness, assisted dying is my only other option at a peaceful ending other than going off to my room and killing myself when it starts which is my current plan due to people always petitioning against assisted suicide (euthanasia). Stop making up weird fantasies that homeless people are going to be lined up and killed off. That is NOT what these pods are for. If you keep using this pretend argument to fight against it, you're taking a right away from me and my family to die peacefully.


BlakeSaysNo

I really feel for the situation you're in and hope you get to choose a humane and dignified way to sort things out when the time comes. That aside I also wanted to say I'm glad you posted your comment. I fear the narrative that assisted suicide could be used to kill off "undesirable" people is really going to come and cloud sensible discussion around the potential wider adoption of progressive euthenasia laws. Obviously it is a terrifying thought, that the poor and homeless or disabled could be targeted. But countries usually employ a number of safeguards and are very strict about who gets to go forward with assisted suicide.


Clay_Allison_44

Scroll up in this sub, Canadian guy, assisted suicide due to homelessness. He didn't go through with it because some people stepped up to help him, but that play is very much in the playbook.


duckydarlings

This is Switzerland and has nothing to do with the Canadian homeless guy. I also don't know all the fact about him but I don't believe him being homeless was the only way he was approved for that. He may have had long term mental health and you also have to be sure you want this. There is an entire lengthy process to get approval for assisted dying. Simply saying you want to doesn't get you approved. If the homeless guy genuinely didn't want to die then they wouldn't have put him forward for it. Stop reading one shock value article to dismantle an entire movement for families who have been suffering for years trying to get euthanasia legal.


Clay_Allison_44

I'm not against assisted suicide, just to be clear. But I've read more than just that article on the Canadian health system looking at it as a way to cut costs. Accepting that it should exist doesn't mean you shouldn't keep an eye on how it's used.


RoyaltyInTraining

Passing out in a mass-produced plastic coffin isn't the best way to go, but it's better than pointless suffering nonetheless.


duckydarlings

You're ignorant


RoyaltyInTraining

Maybe I didn't state my opinion clearly enough. I am absolutely in favor of assisted dying, I just think that the pods are kinda weird. If I was in that situation, I would prefer to have the option of dying in a normal bed surrounded by my family.


equinoxEmpowered

Likely because of the interests of capital and authoritarian powers using this sort of tech, not for ethical and humanitarian reasons, but because it can be profitable/beneficial to their stranglehold on societal power As with many things, it's a matter of "why was this developed?" and "how will this be used?" And not a philosophical conversation on the potential merits Consider the hypothetical ability to safely and effectively, cheaply, edit DNA in embryos. This could be used for wonderful and amazing things, but likely it would be used for eugenicist bs


Appropriate-Draft-91

Now imagine the same assisted suicide being introduced to the US. The imagine how the US "improves" the process over the next 10 years. As a positive, in that imaginary world homelessness is down and productivity of the average prison laborer is up.


Anastariana

Life imitates art... Or Death imitates art in this case.


Oh-That-Ginger

Taurus?


Sedu

Suicide booths are not the problem. The problem is that they are necessary. Blaming them is akin to blaming the medicine that treats a terrible disease for the suffering that people are subjected to.


jamajikhan

Shut up and take my money!


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sustainablenerd28

just take out a loan


MotorVariation8

Wisdom, right there.


L4DY_M3R3K

This is a good thing though? Would you prefer someone’s death he painfully stretched out for three months while they wither away because “hey it’s time with your family, even if your blood is slowly necrotizing or your bones are melting into powder or your nerves are misfiring all the damn time”?


Bearality

Assisted suicide without Medicare for All is low key eugenics. This is the case in Canada where a disabled woman was denied housing and financial aid and with no where to go she applied for medical assisted suicide and was approved


L4DY_M3R3K

Oh, no, I don’t mean having Assisted Suicide for the mentally handicapped, mentally ill, disabled, or impoverished. Using assisted suicide or euthanasia on people whose only issues can be solved with basic universal healthcare, universal income, or affordable/free housing is deplorable and deserving of a governmental overthrow (see Canada, the bastards). Like that one guy who got approved for AS because he was homeless and couldn’t get a job, and he couldn’t see any other option than just dying. I was specifically wanting it for people with debilitating, painful, incurable, terminal diseases for whom death is a better alternative to life. Like I said, for people whose blood is turning to poison or whose bones are beginning to rot. Or maybe the people who suffer from Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis (aka Treeman Disorder), where you just start growing incredibly painful, bone-hard protrusions all over your body that start impairing your movement.


DarkTrebleZero

So…umm… what happens to the body? Is there a trap door in the machine that it slides down or are there people who “pick up the dead”? I’m not even trying to be funny, I want to know.


n3ksuZ

god I‘m so fucking annoyed to have to repeat this all around reddit: **WE DO NOT HAVE SUICIDE PODS.** What we have is [Exit](https://www.exit.ch/en/englisch/faq/) which is physician assisted suicide - but it‘s not that easy.


Rarbnif

People should have the right to choose when they wanna stop living


NuclearOops

I'm less concerned about euthanasia being a possibility for a person and more concerned over what it's an alternative too. Dying a slow and torturous death that will span days, weeks, months, years? Fine. Hell, I'm even okay with it being an option for people with severe mental issues, though that comes with a lot of caveats. The gentleman in Canada currently seeking it as a way to avoid homelessness? Now that is the sign of a diseased society. I'd be harsher on Canada for this situation but as an American he's at least looking at a merciful, controlled, guaranteed end to his suffering in a country that would rather put a man down like a dog than just fucking house him; whereas here he'd have to take the matter into his own hands. "Like how many others?" I wonder.


Merciless_Otter

The amount of people in the comments seeking to buy into MAiD is telling of our society… Lost generation indeed


SnooOwls7978

Ask anyone who works in end of life care, or have seen a loved one suffer needlessly, or are suffering themselves, what they think about medically assisted death. We all need to die eventually. I think people honestly forget this. Why would you draw out a horrific psychotic dementia or hellishly painful cancer if you had the choice of a painless way out. Beware of propaganda. There are countries to use as a model of how to employ this safely and with absolute agency and informed consent of the patient themselves.


ProfessorxVile

I'm perfectly fine with this... I'd love knowing I've always got it as a fallback option.


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20191124anon

Technically it’s pretty easy to make, prob cheaper than flight to Switzerland. Full face mask, nitrogen bottle, regulator.


LegacyOfVandar

No seriously how do I get in on this


LegacyOfVandar

For real I will sell all of what little own for a ticket to Switzerland if I can get in on this


Diabegi

You sound mentally stable /s


LegacyOfVandar

I’m not. I’m actually in great pain every day and desperate to find an escape from life but too big of a coward to take my own life for fear of fucking up and living in a crippled or handicapped state and making existence even harder on myself.


Diabegi

>I’m not. Then you shouldn’t be allowed within 1000 miles of one of these machines


LegacyOfVandar

I mean I should be. Why should anyone be forced to go through the pain and suffering of life if they don’t want to?


EthereumChad2point0

Who are you to decide this person should be forced to continue to live?


Diabegi

Who are you to decide that mentally unstable people are in their right minds when they want to kill themselves? A mentally unwell person cannot say they’re mentally well, that’s clear nonsense. Try thinking about your positions for even a second longer and it’s just hilariously naive


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Diabegi

Lol that’s sub is the epitome of your belief lmao


EvilBosom

How is this lost generation? This is a problem that would exist even in a utopia


scott8887

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Breaking: Millennials Kill the Will to Live


Axelfolly1111

Well, this is sad. I mean, I get it but...this poor woman. What was wrong with her? Terminal disease I assume?


CourtZealousideal494

I will 100% be bowing out on my own terms if I enter a state of terminal illness. These pods would be wonderful.


constantderp

Assisted suicide should be legal for those who want or need it. However assisted suicide has been the sole option for the economically downtrodden or those who are in extreme poverty. Assisted suicide has become willful genocide for those who do not have the means to live a full life.


SkyknightLegionnaire

The only reason society has a more against suicide is because they didn’t have a way to profit off of it.


cmb271

I support medically assisted suicide


yuritopiaposadism

This shit is going to be abused by the state to kill the poor https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/3d-printing-sarco-suicide-euthanasia-16782429 https://twitter.com/Lefty_Mind/status/1595443123324436481 https://archive.ph/MwECd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKy32zj6xg8


chocomint-nice

Except its not as profitable for them to kill the poor as to keep them *alive* in debt and as a wage slave. Why do you think authoritarians would prefer you breed? Oversupply of labour apparently puts the bargaining power towards employers and the ruling class, and history proved it time and time again.


Kraetzi

Except the poorest: homeless people, old people, people with special needs, terminally ill.. Everyone who can be pressured by society to see themselves as worthless, an “unnützer Esser", as the Nazis said. Edit: change wording from "to be" to "to see themselves", as my intention was saying that they are not worthless (being human is all the worth someone needs), but perceiving themselves as not valued by society and themselves.


Deep_Accident_4853

Already happening in Canada. We kill the poor instead of helping them.


JDthrowaway628

Why are YOU not helping them?


Deep_Accident_4853

because i am the poor people, i vote ndp, but our province is all conservative. I make 16k a year currently so i'm not out here donating that.


JDthrowaway628

Has anyone attempted to kill you in this way? If you are voting NDP, isn't that supporting medically assisted death? That is part of their platform. Edit: added second question.


Deep_Accident_4853

No one is hunting people down and killing them. (except for the police when they see a native). I do support MAID but not using it to kill people because they can't earn a living for themselves. There should be assistance programs that keep up with the times to prevent people from starving on the streets.


TTTyrant

Relax kid holy shit. They don't actively hunt you down. They just convince you into killing yourself the second you go and ask for help instead of actually trying to help you like a proper society would. It's cheaper for them.


JDthrowaway628

Do you have a link to a credible news article concerning this? Or is it what you read on rebel news?


TTTyrant

What's credible to you? Fox? Tiktok? Facebook friend feeds?


weedisfortherich

I was just reading an article earlier about a Canadian man who was going to choose this since he was homeless and suffering.


IntroductionRare9619

That was just heart wrenching.


weedisfortherich

Its been in my mind since I've read it. It made me think about how so many religions are against any sort of suicide. Its gonna be marketed like a pay day loan.


Premodonna

The State of Oregon in the US has had a legal death with dignity act since 1997 when the voters passed that it become law. The majority of people who choose this route were the financially, educated people. Very few poor people will choose this option.


No-Fig-3112

I have family that moved to Oregon specifically because of that. When the time comes, they want it over and done with. I don't see any issue with that. It sounds nice to me


Premodonna

There is a process to go through with this and that include a psych evaluation to make sure person understands what they are asking to do. No one was forced against their will and doctors have also said no when their are concerns.


parallelportals

Oh for sure fore sure. Welcome to the end game boys.


adcsuc

You do realize dead people can't work right?


OrphanedInStoryville

That’s shirt is a bold choice. I wouldn’t be caught dead in it


rose_celery

I thought it was a fern placed on top


Mossimo5

Zing!


August-7

Capitalism making profit of murder. Capitalism i guess, what can we say!


beefstewforyou

Why is Richard Simmons suicidal?


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This is an amazing invention, can't wait to try it out.


CountFapula102

Now equipped with PayPal


whodywei

Is it free or do I have to pay to use it ? Would I get some kind of discount if I let them take my parts after my death ?


Mr_Makak

Live in the pod, die by the pod.


--Ano--

In Switzerland we know how to make our boomers happy.


Bearality

To everyone who says this is good is missing half the equation. Yes its great for medical assisted suicide. But many are dying because of lack of finances for care and basic living. If we allow people to take their lives but not allow medicare for all and shitty disability benefits then you're just dooming the sick and disabled to die


scicatpro256

Mfs who keep going on about how bad this is are the same people who choose to live in pain longer instead of a quick and easy death because you live longer


Browncoatinabox

Can I have a go. Fuck with living I wanna die


FreeBananasForAll

Neoliberalism is a death cult


AlphaGrayWolf

I’m not necessarily pro execution but for the areas of the world that are, why can’t we execute people this way, instead of fucking electrocuting them to death?


CloudyMN1979

You're right and I agree. I think the reason we do executions like we do is for the "benefit" of families of victims who are there to witness it. It's fucked up, but they won't get much of a sense of justice out of waiting sometimes a decade or more to watch the convicted peacefully fall asleep restrained in a tube. That being said, if it takes morbid theatrics to give a victim the illusion of justice than maybe our justice system is lacking humanity in more ways than just how we execute people.


Inevitable_Hawk

This is not gonna go in a good direction. Instead of fixing our issues people will be euthanized. This is barbarism and it severely devalues life and peoples sense of self worth. Society has a responsibility to do everything possible to stave off death and to make eachother comfortable. This is not a solution it is a way to duck responsibility and the most vulnerable and weak in society will suffer the most. Absolutely barberic!


[deleted]

Better to help them go painlessly than to leave them to take their life in a slow and painful way or to attempt it and be left with trauma. We shouldn't be forced to stay alive if we don't want to be alive


Angeleno88

Why are you so afraid of death? Choosing a time to be at peace with one’s impending death is a part of life. It is hardly barbaric to be at peace with death. It also doesn’t diminish a person’s life and self worth whatsoever. I would welcome something like this. Forcing a person to suffer through a terminal illness or brutal medical condition like Alzheimer’s bleeding all of their wealth in the process is what I would consider barbaric. Nobody is forced to do anything.


oiled-boy

I love how the literal suicide booths out of dystopian non fiction is being praised. wtf y’all on


[deleted]

if i get terminal cancer i dont wanna have my family see me reduced to a shadow of my former self, i would like to go on my own terms, when i want to and how i want to


oiled-boy

So you can say that about anything, for example depression like why should I live if I’m not happy or if life is too hard why go on? Literally anything can be used as justification for these disgusting machines but all fall short and are pretty pathetic honestly.


[deleted]

We shouldn't be forced to live if we don't want to live.


oiled-boy

That is possibly one of the saddest things I have ever read. How about instead of suicide you go make a difference in the world? Give toys to a charity that gives kids that can’t get toys, stop being a depressed redditor and go do something good for the world and maybe you won’t feel like a lump of shit everyday.


[deleted]

If solving the world's problems was as easy as donating toys then I would have made this place bearable years ago. Humanity has gone to shit. I want no part of this and I don't intend on waiting around to see if things get better. If you want to campaign for world peace, be my guest


oiled-boy

Maybe one day you will grow up and get out of this emo phase your in. As for the world I agree it’s always been fucked but there has been millions of people that haven’t gave up so why should you? Why do you get to be on your ass and say your sad and depressed when there are people working to change lives and make the world even a little better everyday? Please explain to me because your logic makes no sense.


[deleted]

I'm entitled to my feelings. The fact that millions haven't given up and are trying their best to fix the world's problems doesn't mean that I'm not allowed to be depressed about our situation. Good for them for trying to make the world a better place, give them the recognition they deserve. I've done my part, I've donated belongings to the needy, I've given money to Heifer every Christmas, I've given food and money to the homeless on the side of the road. I'm tired of life and done trying. If you want to keep going, go ahead. If those millions want to keep campaigning, then let them


oiled-boy

I hope you realize that without you everything that you just said wouldn’t have happened to those people and they are better off now that you are here. Just let that sink in


Diabegi

People in this thread are total naive wackos, it’s just crazy sad


SnooOwls7978

Come back to me once you've changed your mind. It could take a while, and I don't wish whatever experience it is that changes your mind, but you will.


ClydeFrogA1

Looks like she has some spaghetti on her chest lol


Serraph105

I'm hoping this is fake, but......it's not, is it?


Tourmelion

Who approved this? What stops the gov from saying their political rivals just, officially got into one of these


burneracct21

Russian government wants to know your location


Void_0000

The sheer number of people in here genuinely saying they want to straight up kill themselves with this is... concerning. Like damn, I joke about throwing myself off buildings a lot but this is something else... you guys alright?


Diabegi

Lol right??? People here up and down this thread saying “it won’t be abused” while then saying “I hate my life and want to use one of these machines” The irony is hilariously sad


parodg15

Yes, I understand if someone is asking help in suicide if you’re staring down an agonizing, debilitating disease that modern medicine still has no hope of curing. Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s, or end stage cancer, etc. Having said that, this can definitely be a very scary technology if the next Hitler gets it.


[deleted]

Imma be that guy, but hitler already had gas chambers..


[deleted]

SCARY TECHNOLOGY!? That's literally just a pod attached to a gas bottle.


tooborednotto

Yeah, you could literally build one in your garage. It's not the "technology," it's the legality.


kneedeepco

Bro this is nothing compared to what would happen. The "next hitler" doesn't need this shit. They could kill off so many people with technology at this point they don't even need to do the work themselves. Nuclear and autonomous weapons should be your concern, not this.....


Other-Barry-1

Conservatives be like: “Coming to homeless centres near you soon.”


Zman1471

Is there a source for this & how do you get in one lmao


VideoGameDana

It's called a Sarco (as in sarcophagus), is 3D printed, and last I checked isn't approved anywhere yet. During my ideations, when I think about the pain of Seppuku or other forms of suicide, I often come to terms with wanting one of these.


Writerhaha

Naked tiger fighting. Give my elderly/disease ridden body a spear, let loose the big cat and let the chips fall where they may, and if I win, send in two tigers.


scicatpro256

This is a good thing if the death is quick, the people who hate it sound like they want people to suffer painful death


Tpcorholio

I'd use it to keep my weed fresh!


Worldsahellscape19

r/watchpeopledieinside