"The inventor of a controversial suicide pod is making sure his device keeps up with the times by augmenting it with AI tech - which, we regret to inform you, is not merely some sort of dark joke. "One of the parts to the device which hadn't been finished, but is now finished, is the artificial intelligence," the inventor, Philip Nitschke, told the Daily Mail in a new interview."
"In 2024, it was used to facilitate the suicide of a 64-year-old woman in Switzerland. The 3D-printed pod is activated when the person seeking to take their own life presses a button, filling the sealed, futuristic-looking coffin with nitrogen that causes the user to lose consciousness and "peacefully" pass away within a few minutes. To date, the woman's death in Switzerland is the only case of the Sarco pod seeing real-world action."
Philip Nitschke added artificial intelligence to the Sarco euthanasia pod to evaluate users' decision-making capacity and modernize its operation. The Sarco pod is a 3D-printed, coffin-like chamber that fills with nitrogen when the occupant presses a button, causing loss of consciousness and a rapid, reportedly peaceful death. The device was first built in 2019 and was used in 2024 in Switzerland by a 64-year-old woman. Swiss authorities arrested a Last Resort co-president for allegedly assisting the suicide; he was released two months later. Swiss law allows assisted dying only when the individual retains mental capacity and self-activation.
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