3D printed 'suicide pod' used by a human for the first time (www.theregister.com)
from Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 07:56
https://lemmy.world/post/20199212

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I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 09:04 next collapse

  • Looks over at Ender 3

Hehe, by the time it finished printing something that size, I might have expired of natural causes!

isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Sep 2024 09:58 next collapse

the 3d printing part is only aesthetical, people have been taking their lifes by just using a bag or whatever else can contain the nitrogen from a tank

echodot@feddit.uk on 26 Sep 2024 13:40 collapse

Yeah but that’s boring. I’m not going to die in a pedestrian manner, it’s got to be in a cool sci-fi way or I’m not doing it.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 15:08 next collapse

Oh yes you are, mister!

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 08:13 next collapse

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TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz on 27 Sep 2024 09:08 collapse

Wear Matrix cosplay and jump off a skyscraper. Just believe, Neo!

… something about that image is terrifying and funny to me at the same time. 😅

echodot@feddit.uk on 28 Sep 2024 00:56 collapse

Personally I refuse to die for anything short of an antimatter explosion.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 15:07 collapse

It’s all just a scam to get you to buy tons of filament. They know you’ll never follow through.

Humanius@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 09:15 next collapse

… and the people involved were arrested

FireWire400@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 09:18 next collapse

as well as a fee of €95 ($105) for 24 months of access

Ah, there it is. The death subscription.

Contingencyfork@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 10:19 next collapse

I’m not paying 4 bucks a month unless it’s ad free

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 15:05 collapse

Please Select Your 90-Second Ad Experience While Your Sarco Pod Initiates

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 10:48 next collapse

The design files and software will probably be pirate-able within a couple of years.

[deleted] on 26 Sep 2024 13:56 collapse

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SomethingBurger@jlai.lu on 26 Sep 2024 11:18 next collapse

GamePassAway

echodot@feddit.uk on 26 Sep 2024 13:36 next collapse

I never thought the rich would paywall dying.

very_well_lost@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 14:32 collapse

Really? Back in the day even Charon took his cut.

Sabata11792@ani.social on 26 Sep 2024 13:44 next collapse

The last thing you’ll ever need to pirate.

dan80@lemmy.ca on 26 Sep 2024 17:10 collapse

At least the Jolly Roger flag is very appropriate, in this case 🏴‍☠️

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 15:04 next collapse

I bet they don’t get very many cancellations either.

FireWire400@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 15:14 collapse

You can’t tell me that’s not part of the business model…

Wispy2891@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 19:43 collapse

Deal breaker, it should be one time fee

frunch@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 09:35 next collapse

Here’s my proposal:

I’ve heard the claim numerous times that people leave a tremendous carbon footprint. Each person would be assigned a certain amount of “carbon credits” that their life is worth, and the value slowly declines as they get older. If they choose to, one can hop in the expiration bin and donate those remaining credits to a cause of their choice: they can give them to their children, family, or friends, donate them to a charity or research group, etc.

I can just imagine the ads where companies try to compel you to take the early-expiration route while relinquishing your credits to them “for the greater good” or some other such nonsense

Children mass-produced for the glorious stream of carbon credits it would award

Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla et al provide “expiration tanks” in convenient places that send the credits directly to them after each “donation”

Wtf i need to go back to sleep, lol

Night night lemmy ✨

mnmalst@lemmy.zip on 26 Sep 2024 09:47 next collapse

Thanks Satan

aaa@lemmy.sdf.org on 26 Sep 2024 10:28 next collapse

sounds like a black mirror episode, you should contact charlie brooker

MyFairJulia@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 10:56 collapse

Charlie Brooker stopped making Black Mirror because of that user

echodot@feddit.uk on 26 Sep 2024 13:37 collapse

He stopped making them because they kept coming true.

I think I can cope with most of them except White Christmas.

curry@programming.dev on 26 Sep 2024 10:58 next collapse

It is every citizen’s final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.

Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, “Ethics for Tomorrow”

patrick@lemmy.bestiver.se on 26 Sep 2024 15:16 collapse

That’s somewhat similar to the plot of the movie Plan 75.

“In a dystopian alternate reality, the Japanese government creates a program called “Plan 75” that offers free euthanasia services to all Japanese citizens 75 and older in order to deal with its rapidly aging population.”

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 26 Sep 2024 10:00 next collapse

Hell of a lot of duct tape on that thing.

earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Sep 2024 10:09 next collapse

People still think this is a suicide pod, while it is used by robots to generate electricity.

Steve@startrek.website on 26 Sep 2024 10:54 next collapse

Plastic bag: am I a joke to you?

0x0@programming.dev on 26 Sep 2024 11:24 next collapse

Hardly a pleasant way to go…

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 15:07 next collapse

Some people are into that.

bamfic@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 04:14 collapse
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca on 26 Sep 2024 16:02 collapse

The suicide bag uses a similar process as the suicide pod, but is very much DIY. Shouldn’t be too uncomfortable unless you’re claustrophobic.

altima_neo@lemmy.zip on 26 Sep 2024 12:43 collapse

I’ll just get the old box of Calgon out of the laundry room.

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 10:56 next collapse

has also been working on an implant that would be able to euthanize Alzheimer patients unable to make their own care decisions, and told us the first one has been built. It will only be loaded with saline to test the timing technology used in the implant, we’re told.

Fuck yeah. Family members, nor the state, can be trusted to execute a demented persons wishes — wishes they were made while still of sound mind. I was already planning on building a suicide machine if I’m ever diagnosed (customised gas mask + nitrous oxide or nitrogen tank probably). Having autonomous, simple, well tested, painless options would prevent me having to waste my time on that.

sxan@midwest.social on 26 Sep 2024 12:09 collapse

This thing is exactly my exit strategy. My living will gives my wife absolute authority to decide to terminate my life if she sees fit; whether or not the state would allow it is another matter, but at least my wishes are known. These include conditions of cognitive decline; my step-father recently passed after a protracted decade of horrific decline, and no fucking way all I going through that.

While you’ve got a more pragmatic solution, to be frank, if I’m going I’d like to do so with some guarantees and comfort. I’m not comfortable with the risk of accidentally half-assing the attempt with something I jury-rigged and end up with brain damage and the inability to complete the job. I’m hoping that some state will have the balls to jump into suicide tourism and open clinics full of these specific devices, so if things get bad and I’m still able to travel, I can go in some comfort.

I’m fucked if I’m comatose, because most options are simply removing support and letting the patient starve to death, and I fear being conscious (enough) through that protracted process.

We have such shit laws in this country (USA) about giving people autonomy over their end-of-life process.

FauxPseudo@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 12:30 next collapse

It being 3D printed is the least relevant part of this. But it has to be in the headline to get clicks. But it apparently also has to be the lead? "Molecule based “suicide pod’…”, “Carbon neutral ‘suicide pod’…”, “Self actualized ‘suicide pod’…”, “Corporate sponsored ‘suicide pod’…”

There aren’t many things you could put in front of the real story here that change the story without creating an even bigger story. And 3D printed is definitely not one of them.

nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz on 26 Sep 2024 13:12 next collapse

“Mandatory”

FauxPseudo@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 14:42 collapse

Oh, that’s nice. Well done.

FMT99@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 13:13 next collapse

The register is a tech magazine, so the DIY/3D printed angle is relevant here. It’s also relevant because it would, at least to some degree, allow someone to build it themselves in places where perhaps the legality of self determination is questionable. The Register is not a place where you’ll normally find unnecessary clickbait headlines.

podperson@lemm.ee on 26 Sep 2024 16:14 next collapse

AI-powered suicide pod, powered by blockchain NFTs SLAMMED by Trump campaign.

There - all the clicks you can eat now.

vonxylofon@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 21:37 next collapse

It’s kind of a big deal if you can’t legally do this (and as it happens, you can’t where they did it) by implying you can circumvent the law this way.

dsilverz@thelemmy.club on 26 Sep 2024 23:52 collapse

Corporate sponsored ‘suicide pod’

ROFL. I can even imagine the scene of someone going through the… you know, the thing… and while oofing they see a big screen “This pod is sponsored by Grim Reaper Funeral Home, the angel at your service”.

It won’t take long for a “Corporate sponsored ‘suicide pod’ Vanced AdBlocked PainBlocked”.

Veneroso@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 01:09 collapse

No one to morn you!?

Choose Carl the Cannibal!

He’ll savor you!


McDonald’s: The McRib is back!

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 13:01 next collapse

Why can’t I shake off the feeling this is some kind of Edison-Tesla situation to give 3D printing a bad rep?

wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk on 26 Sep 2024 13:04 next collapse

Waiting for the reviews

echodot@feddit.uk on 26 Sep 2024 13:34 collapse

1 star - didn’t work.

tdawg@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 20:12 collapse

You joke but it’ll happen eventually

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Sep 2024 11:50 collapse

Asphyxiation is never not successful.
Let it run for an 8h and if the oxygen sensor doesnt report any leak than I’d say “He’s dead jim”.

Zip2@feddit.uk on 26 Sep 2024 15:13 next collapse

Used by a human for the first time……. and last?

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 15:46 next collapse

Death with dignity should be an essential human right.

jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 22:00 collapse

It is, we just don’t have it.

TheRealKuni@lemmy.world on 26 Sep 2024 21:08 next collapse

“You are now dead. Thank you for using Stop’n’Drop: America’s favorite suicide booth since 2008!”

Default_Defect@midwest.social on 26 Sep 2024 23:46 next collapse

How long until someone murders a person with one of these as a cover up?

selokichtli@lemmy.ml on 27 Sep 2024 13:22 collapse

Do you want to have a perfect tanned skin?

raynethackery@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 02:25 next collapse

How long before the first Sleepshop opens?

Rinox@feddit.it on 27 Sep 2024 07:32 next collapse

We truly live in the future

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snailfact@infosec.pub on 27 Sep 2024 09:51 next collapse

is this on thingiverse?

nutsack@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 12:42 next collapse

why did it need to be 3D printed

Obi@sopuli.xyz on 27 Sep 2024 15:51 next collapse

Why does it need to be a pod??

nutsack@lemmy.world on 28 Sep 2024 03:17 collapse

that’s true. it could be a garbage disposal instead

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 28 Sep 2024 03:31 next collapse

My print keeps failing! Can I just use a trash barrel? Lol. I don’t understand at all why one would need or want to 3D print anything.

nutsack@lemmy.world on 28 Sep 2024 06:08 collapse

fucking printer i hate this thing

Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca on 28 Sep 2024 04:28 collapse

Perhaps due to the reasons that executed prisoners need to be injected with a suspicious cocktail of drugs. No company wants to be connected to the death of a person. Perhaps they are worried they won’t be able to supply parts and components once the news gets out about what their product does.

Thehalfjew@lemmy.world on 27 Sep 2024 13:41 next collapse

So these aren’t cool mice? Because I was excited when I thought they were cool mice.

Etterra@lemmy.world on 28 Sep 2024 04:02 collapse

Whatever you do don’t mix it up with your interstellar suspended animation pod.