Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Janet Eastham reported for the Telegraph on November 25, 2024 that:
The doctor behind the so-called Sarco “death pod” has said he will bring his invention to Britain if assisted dying is made legal.
Dr Philip Nitschke, 77, has said he is ready to launch in Britain a 3D-printed portable machine that floods with nitrogen gas at the press of a button, should Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying Bill become law.
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition reported on September 29, 2024 how the Sarco suicide pod works. The Sarco Suicide Pod is promoted as an easy and pain free death (nitrogen gas is released into the pod causing the person to die of asphyxiation).
Veterinarians have rejected death by nitrogen gas for animals. The ACLU defines death by nitrogen gas as torture, with reference to capital punishment.
Eastham reported:
Veterinarians have rejected death by nitrogen gas for animals. The ACLU defines death by nitrogen gas as torture, with reference to capital punishment.
Dr Nitschke said the machine could prove popular with people undergoing assisted dying who do not want to die by lethal injection or medicine cocktails designed to end their life.
He told The Telegraph he is “absolutely” keen to bring the Sarco pod to the UK.
Richard Ekins KC, professor of law and constitutional government at St John’s College, Oxford, said: “If Kim Leadbeater’s Bill passes, and if the Secretary of State approves liquid nitrogen as an approved substance, then the Sarco death pod would be a lawful means to assist suicide in Britain.”
If Wes Streeting, who intends to vote against the Bill this Friday, rejects the Sarco device, those with swallowing difficulties or needle phobias are “likely” to bring a discrimination challenge under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Once killing becomes a legal option why wouldn't Nitschke's Sarco suicide pod be an option? The ACLU and veterinarians consider death by nitrogen gas to be torture. The assisted suicide drugs that are currently in use can be descriibed the same way.
Legislators need to reject euthanasia and assisted suicide and commit to caring options.
I'm a healthy 71-year-old woman in Canada. Does anyone realize just how frightening it is, even for a healthy person, to live in a society that accepts euthanasia and medically assistance in dying as an option for "health care"? It is indeed terrifying!
ReplyDeleteAs I go for any routine medical procedure, I wonder whether I am perceived as being a burden because of my age, and whether I'm being viewed as too old to bother about; in other words, just why I am bothering the medical system at all.
I understand that doctors here are offering medical assistance in dying as an option when informing patients of their choices for treatment, or will shortly be allowed.
Don't forget that you may be the next person to be offered medical assistance in dying.
It's clear that, Nitschke (a foolish, disgusting, perverse, arrogant, deceptive, wicked & sadistic spawn of Satan) is absolutely chomping at the bit to start using his evil invention, in order to begin inflicting DEATH BY TORTURE, not only, on the terminally ill, but ALSO on the depressed, aging, hopeless, poverty stricken, handicapped & non-terminally ill, thanks to his obvious hatred of humanity (GOD's creation) & his blood lust (just like his father/the devil).
ReplyDeleteI also have no doubt, that 77 yr. old Nitschke, who is already aged/a senior citizen, himself & well past his prime (according to him & his comrade's standards), will, towards the end of his life (like the COWARD that he is) do EVERYTHING humanly possible (that his money can buy) in a futile attempt to prolong his (pathetic) life & evade death for as long as he can.