If You Thought Kevorkian Was A “One-Off”

     There’s a new “Dr. Death,” and he has an invention for us:

     A suicide pod dubbed the “Tesla of euthanasia” will be used for the first time next week.
     Sarco, a 3D-printed capsule, was unveiled at the Venice Design Festival in 2019 and reportedly offers a painless death within 10 minutes of entering with the push of a button, reported Metro.
     It works by flooding the chamber with nitrogen, which reduces oxygen levels so fast that the person inside loses consciousness within the first minute. The person will then have a “peaceful, even euphoric” death within 10 minutes, according to the company site.

     How convenient! How reassuring!

     The inventor, Australian Dr. Philip Nitschke, is of course proud of his “achievement:”

     The Sarco, short for sarcophagus, doubles as a coffin. It is made of biodegradable materials.
     The “right-to-die” agenda has long been pushed by Leftists, and the Sarco Suicide Pod is just the latest version of how White, Western lives can be prematurely destroyed. Created by Australian “humanist”, Philip Nitschke is a former physician and author with a lengthy history of controversy.He is the founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International.
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     Nitschke was the first physician in the world to administer a legal, voluntary lethal injection. The patient was able to administer the injection by activating a syringe using a computer. Among his controversial exploits, he made headlines when he accompanied eight people from New Zealand as they traveled to Mexico to obtain Nembutal, a drug legally-obtained in Mexico that was capable of delivering a fatal overdose.He made headlines again by suggesting that people should board a ship (referred to as the Death Ship), which would then take everyone to international waters so he could euthanize them legally and skirt legal responsibility and culpability. Additionally, in 2009, Nitschke helped to promote Dignified Departure, a 13-hour, pay-television program on doctor-assisted suicide in Hong Kong and mainland China. It was aired in China on the Family Health channel.

     Because “family health,” of course, must include a convenient death.

     Some Gentle Readers have written to tell us that Pascal and I overemphasize the death cults thesis. Yet there are persons such as Nitschke laboring tirelessly to make death as conveniently available as tap water. See them as part of a mosaic that includes “medical ethicists” who argue that the elderly should be denied medical care so that it can be “conserved,” and persons such as Peter Singer, who argues for a right to abort a baby up to a month after his birth. Add the anti-energy advocates, who fear what we might do with new, clean, dense energy sources. Extend it to embrace “environmentalists” who claim that “a wild and healthy planet” is more important than human survival, and biology professors who calmly tell their students that 90% of the human race is doomed. Add the “futurists” who oppose space exploration on the grounds that “polluting” the rest of the solar system is morally wrong.

     Frankly, I don’t think we write about the death cultists nearly often enough.