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CW: suicide" Several arrested after woman dies in 'suicide pod' (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

Guys it reminds of me of an episode in old-person future cartoon so it must be bad.

Note how every criticism of this is purely on aesthetic grounds. The American who used it was in pain and a had a lethal diagnosis.

The grounds of this arrest is extremely problematic and could set a precedent effectively making assisted suicide illegal. If buying NOx violates dangerous chemical acts/laws, what is stopping any shithead conservative org from going after assisted suicide via barbiturates? Or opioids?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

He told the BBC that his findings suggested the pod "did not constitute a medical device", so would not be covered by the Swiss Therapeutic Products Act.

He also believed it would not fall foul of laws governing the use of nitrogen, weapons or product safety.

"This means that the pod is not covered by Swiss law," he said. But Kerstin Noelle Vkinger, a doctor, lawyer and professor at the University of Zurich, told Swiss newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung: "Medical devices are regulated because they are supposed to be safer than other products. Just because a product is not beneficial to health does not mean that it is not also affected by these additional safety requirements."

An American goes to Switzerland then gets into a 3d printed death pod that is in a "legal grey area" specfically because it isn't a medical device and then dies in that pod and your surprised that such a situation could lead to backlash?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

If you knew anything about assisted suicide, you'd know that it has always been a "legal grey area" in Switzerland. Medication is much more regulated in Europe than in America to the point where you can't buy Cough syrup without multi-doctoral approval.

Assisted suicide is legal by non-enforcement in Switzerland if you can consent and commence the suicide by yourself. In the traditional case this has been via Barbiturate self-intake. In theory, giving someone barbiturates for the purpose of facilitating suicide may be a crime, but it has never been enforced. By criminalizing NOx-assisted suicide, your are effectively criminalizing any chemical assisted suicide.

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