At the time of sharing, that post already got 45k upvotes. As Swiss, what is your reaction to the prominence of that topic?
At the time of sharing, that post already got 45k upvotes. As Swiss, what is your reaction to the prominence of that topic?
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Cool I guess… Finally something that isn’t about Nazi gold.
As always when it comes to the topic of euthanasia, it’s something that foreigners care a lot more about than what we do here.
Do you know what the method used is or can you provide a link?
See? There!I’m not the only one using the word euthanasia wrong!
[It wasn’t “legalized”!](https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sarco-suicide-capsule–passes-legal-review–in-switzerland/46966510)
It passed a “legal review” by lawyers payed by the company producing this booth. No official Swiss organization has had any contact with this thing.
As far as we know, be dead is not a bad thing as nobody ever returned and complained.. /s
“Blink of an eye” is wrong, but it’s apparently as pleasant a way to go as any. You quickly lose consciousness due to lack of oxygen, but there’s no panic, as long as the CO2 isn’t allowed to build up. However, irreversible death takes several minutes.
And it already have been posted 3-4 times on r/Switzerland.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/r9prej/sarco_suicide_capsule_passes_legal_review_in/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/rb2q35/suicide_machine_that_can_kill_users_with_blink_of/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/rb0n5t/switzerland_approves_assisted_suicide_capsule/
As someone else has already said, we don’t really talk about this much here. There was this ongoing thing a while back where one of the two major organizations, I can’t remember if it was Dignitas or Exit, was using a house in a residential area and some people didn’t like their kids watching them carrying caskets out of the place several times a day, but that’s the only time I remember any of this being controversial in Switzerland. I also don’t understand why it should be. Unless your religion tells you otherwise, why shouldn’t people be allowed to die when they want to?