Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Well, it certainly ain’t pod racing.
First, a little soylent scene:
Carrying on…
The already infamous “suicide” pod, where a person gets inside and pushes a button to die, has been used for the first time.
“The ghoulish Australian ‘doctor‘” Philip Nitschke has long been obsessed with making suicide readily available to anyone who wants to die. Indeed, years ago, he told NRO’s Kathryn Jean Lopez that he wanted what he called “peaceful” suicide pills sold in supermarkets, even to ‘troubled teens.’
“Nitschke also sold plastic suicide bags in Australia (which I helped cause to be outlawed when I busted him for his ghoulishness in the national media there in 2001). Subsequently, he traveled the world teaching how-to-commit-suicide classes and starred at international death-movement conventions. Awful.
“More recently, Nitschke made world headlines in the assisted-suicide-boosting media for inventing a “suicide capsule” that asphyxiates the suicidal person with nitrogen. At first, Swiss authorities said it would be legal, and then they backtracked.
“Legal or not, it appears the capsule was used by an American woman to become dead in Switzerland.”
