The least awful publicity goes with letting the patient pull his or her own plug. An easy goal if the individual sees no connection between him or her and the future. As a talented geek argues elsewhere, suicide is about apoptosis and depression is a companion but not a driver....


"From The Times
"March 29, 2008
"Death for hire - suicide machine lets you push final button
"Roger Boyes in Berlin
"One press of a button and you can end your life with a swift injection of potassium chloride. That is the boast of Roger Kusch, once one of Germany's most promising conservative politicians and now the improbable promoter of a mercy-killing machine.
"If the "Perfusor", designed to sidestep strict laws banning assisted suicide, goes into production then Germany rather than Switzerland could soon become the destination of choice for those seeking to kill themselves.
Some 700 patients, including several terminally ill Britons, have travelled to Zurich where the self-help organisation Dignitas arranges suicide. Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland since 1942 providing a doctor has been consulted and the patient is aware of the consequences of his decision.
"But Dignitas has come under fire for with suicide techniques. According to video evidence presented to the Zurich state prosecutor, patients have been placing plastic bags over their heads and feeding in helium gas."

more at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3641866.ece

JimB

Reference:

Suicide & Apoptosis: Mother said "No." Chapt 11 in rebellion physics to personal will Lincoln, NE: iUniverse. $16 bucks in Peoria, $32 from scalpers on Alibris...more about the book at: http//rebellionphysicstopersonalwill.blogspot.com/ There is a picture and yes, I am that handsome...