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Wednesday, October 2
“Dr. Death ”works body implant that will kill you if you forget to turn it off once a day
A doctor revealed his plans to create a body implant that will kill him if he forgets to disable it once a day.
The doctor. Philip Nitschke, defender of euthanasia , also known as “Dr . Death ”, is designing lethal implants for people who can develop dementia .
Users who have it inserted would have to press a button once a day to prevent poison from leaking from the device.
Its concept assumes that if someone develops dementia , you will forget to press the button and therefore end your life.
Dr. Nitschke explained that “today a A person who shows the first symptoms of dementia can, even in his right mind and legally in some places, fill out a paper saying “if I get like this, kill me.”
“Ten years later, a doctor can read the paper, give him an injection and end his life. That makes a lot of people feel uncomfortable and it also makes me feel uncomfortable.
“So what we’re working on is a kind of implant that you must disconnect every day. When you have forgotten why you are turning off something that sounds, you will die.
“That returns responsibility to the person and allows them to get what they want, which is not to continue living as a kind of vegetable, without anyone being prepared to end their life. ”
Added that it could beep for a day or two before activating to ensure that the dementia has progressed sufficiently, and so that still healthy users do not forget it.
The device follows a capsule similar to a coffin that he invented and allows people to end his life, and that could be used in Switzerland from next year.
The suicide capsule Sarco allows the user to lie down and activate the process by himself in a matter of minutes.
People are asked a series of questions before they can press press a button, bringing oxygen to a critical level.
Nitrogen fills the 3D printed device, reducing oxygen from the 21 percent to only 1 percent around 30 seconds.
Then follows a feeling of “disorientation” and “euphoria”, before finally losing consciousness.
Death occurs due to hypoxia (low oxygen level in body tissues) and hypocapnia (reduction of carbon dioxide in the blood), followed by critical deprivation of oxygen and carbon dioxide. About 1, 100 people ended their lives by assisted suicide in Switzerland last year. The Swiss government has yet to clarify whether it intends to allow the use of the capsule.
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