{"id":148154,"date":"2021-12-23T21:37:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T21:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=148154"},"modified":"2021-12-23T21:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T21:37:13","slug":"dr-death-suicide-pod-boffin-plans-implant-that-kills-if-not-activated-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/dr-death-suicide-pod-boffin-plans-implant-that-kills-if-not-activated-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dr Death’ suicide pod boffin plans implant that kills if not activated daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suicide pod creator Dr Nitschke, aka Dr Death, wants to create an implant that will kill you if not activated daily.<\/p>\n

The suicide boffin's bold idea would see people insert the lethal implant and then press a button daily to stop poison leaking out.<\/p>\n

If that person went on to develop dementia, they might forget to press the button effectively killing themselves.<\/p>\n

Dr Nitschke told The Independent: \u201cWhen a person has dementia, they can nowadays quite legally in some places fill out a bit of paper 10 years ago, when they are of sound mind, saying \u2018if I get like this, kill me\u2019. <\/p>\n

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\u201cNow, 10 years later, a doctor can come along, read the bit of paper, and even though you don\u2019t know which way is up or down, legally give you an injection and end your life. That makes a lot of people feel pretty uncomfortable, and certainly makes me feel uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what we\u2019re working on here is some sort of an implant which you have to switch off every day. When you\u2019ve forgotten why you\u2019re switching something off that\u2019s beeping, then you will die.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat puts the responsibility right back onto the person and allows them to get what they want, which is that they do not want to live on as some form of vegetable, with no one prepared to end their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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