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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Swiss police say they have detained several people and opened a criminal case a day after the first use of the "Sarco" capsule to end a person's life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances.

Police in the northern Swiss canton of Schaffhausen said on Tuesday that several people had been detained, and a dead body taken for examination, following the apparent first use of a capsule designed to help people end their lives. 

The "Sarco" capsule, made in the Netherlands and in development for several years now, is supposed to allow a person reclining inside to press a button, after which most of the oxygen in the sealed chamber is replaced with nitrogen. 

According to the group that promotes its use, Exit International, this triggers first mild disorientation and euphoria, then unconsciousness, and in a few minutes death by asphyxiation.

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[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

You can get help setting everything up, but you have to be the one to push the button, pick up the lethal medicine, etc

[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

But you have to pay to use this machine. So the people who made it are self-interested in you dying because they want your money.

[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 month ago

In the article from de Volksrant

According to The Last Resort, the woman paid nothing for the Sarco, with the exception of 18 Swiss francs for the nitrogen tank and her funeral costs. ‘Using the Sarco is free’, Stewart states. ‘That is part of our philosophy. We don't want to make any money on this. '

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure you have to pay if you back out as well, so that's not an incentive to kill you either.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net -3 points 1 month ago

There is no ethical suicide under capitalism.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Whatever brand of Socialism/Communism you advocate for that denies the sick and dying a dignified death, you can keep it.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How the fuck did you read that as anything but a joke? Like seriously, how? What did you think I was saying with that comment?

EDIT: And just to be clear, I am an anarchist and I think it's absurd that any state has the hubris to tell anyone that they're not allowed to die. FOH.

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