Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland

Re:Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland by jasonpeacock on Sunday December 05, 2021 @01:29PM (#29451513)

This is exactly my point - why do something so complicated when many people die quietly in their homes from CO poisoning? Let's just setup a CO poisoning chamber to do the same thing.

Or nitrogen as the article describes. Or a fatal overdose of a pleasant drug like morphine?

Even the guillotine is quite humane, though gory.

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Re:Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland by gambiting on Sunday December 05, 2021 @01:39PM (#29451620)

I never understood it either - there must be some crazy reason though.

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Re:Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland by kergonath on Sunday December 05, 2021 @01:53PM (#29451786)

Sadism, mostly. The electric chair was painful enough but too picturesque, which makes it easy to rally against. The injections solve that problem whilst still inflicting immense pain. Which is supposed to be good, because these damn criminals had it coming. Or something.

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Re:Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland by alice-i-cecile on Sunday December 05, 2021 @01:49PM (#29451747)

Many argue that the deliberate cruelty is the point. Also stigma around gas chambers.

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