American woman becomes the first to die in Swiss "suicide pod"

We support our Publishers and Content Creators. You can view this story on their website by CLICKING HERE.

You know how they want you to eat the bugs and live in a pod?

Well, there’s a pod now for dying as well.

The unnamed 64-year-old Midwestern woman died in the suicide pod on Monday after the machine told her “If you want to die, press this button.”

(She pressed the button.)

Here’s how Exit International’s suicide pod works to kill its inhabitants.

The 3D-printed chamber called a Sarco, short for ‘sarcophagus,’ floods its chamber with nitrogen gas, causing the user’s oxygen levels to plummet to deadly levels.

The process knocks out the individual, with death occurring within 10 minutes. The pod comes with an emergency exit button.

I pray to God that an abundance of suicidal people decide to press that emergency exit button once they’re in too deep. It’s never too late to have a change of heart.

Here’s the inventor of the suicide pod, Philip Nitschke, sitting next to his beloved killing machine:

Interestingly enough, this type of assisted suicide is illegal in Switzerland, which has resulted in a bunch of people involved here being arrested.

Apparently nobody is allowed to “aid” or “abet” in the suicide process, which is very confusing because you are allowed to administer suicide pills in the country.

While signs pointed to the Sarco pod being approved in the country, Swiss Health Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider suggested Monday that the capsule would not gain legal status.

‘It does not fulfill the demands of the product safety law, and as such, must not be brought into circulation,’ she said, adding that ‘the corresponding use of nitrogen is not compatible with the article on purpose in the chemicals law.’

Again, very confusing. Still, there’s no doubt in my mind that this pod will eventually be approved, as it is in the Netherlands where Exit International is based.

I’d like to add some news coverage concerning this woman’s unlawful death, but YouTube won’t even let me show it here due to its content.