They say suicide is never the answer: but this rather depends on what the question is. If life in Starmer’s Britain should ever get too much for you, Australian activist Dr. Philip Nitschke has a handy new remedy to hand in shape of his ‘Sarco Pod’, an airtight capsule into which a suicidal individual climbs alive, only to emerge again dead a few minutes later, following release of deadly nitrogen gas; a woman in Switzerland has just been the first to go through with using one.
Many readers will have some sympathy with those suffering from incurable diseases like cancer who wish to put a swift and painless end to their agony. Yet Dr. Nitschke says anyone should be able to make use of his pods, even perfectly healthy and pain-free individuals, the decision to kill oneself being the sole business of the individual concerned within a truly free society. As he once told the Guardian, access to assisted dying should be “an essential human right”. In Nitschke’s ideal world, “everybody qualifies” for assisted euthanasia, not just the already seriously ill, but even those “who want to die for social reasons”.
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