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2025-05-24 Science & Technology

The kill switch for dementia sufferers: Inventor behind the suicide Sarco pod reveals plans for implant that will automatically kill patients when their condition worsens

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-24 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [161 views ] Top

#1 Picking up where COVID left off.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-24 07:26|| 2025-05-24 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 "Dr." Nitschke...sounds like a name right out of Auschwitz (or the Green Bay Packers).

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-05-24 08:57|| 2025-05-24 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 What if he gets it wrong? What if the implant kills you randomly as you’re enjoying a Grand Slam at Denny’s? Only a moron would sign up for that treatment. I think the doctor thought Escape From New York was a brain storming session.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-05-24 09:19|| 2025-05-24 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe angling for the Canadian General Practice Market.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-05-24 10:00|| 2025-05-24 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 What if somebody learns to hack these implants?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-24 11:03|| 2025-05-24 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Canada will probably make them mandatory. Anybody who is "inconvenient" can be dealt with.

Posted by Rambler 2025-05-24 11:21|| 2025-05-24 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 What if somebody learns to hack these implants?
Check your pacemaker.

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-24 12:11|| 2025-05-24 12:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Devices with a switch that an individual that use to 'trigger' his death have existed for many centuries now.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-05-24 12:40|| 2025-05-24 12:40|| Front Page Top

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