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How does one describe such a culture of death? It’s a puzzlement.
Dutch designer Alexander Bannink explains how the Sarco euthanasia machine works as a man experiences sitting in the device by wearing virtual reality glasses, on April 14, 2018, at the Amsterdam Funeral Expo. (photo: Jasper Juinen / AFP via Getty Images)
When the trains bringing people to Auschwitz for killing pulled into the station, there was often a small orchestra playing on the platform. The Germans wanted people to see how “civilized” they were. Music also tended to calm people and allay their suspicions.
Music seems also apropos to the Western drive toward euthanasia. A particularly apt piece comes from musical The King and I. The King sings about puzzlements.
Australian euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has invented “Sarco,” a futuristic “pod” that resembles a cockpit, designed to allow somebody who wants to kill himself to so all by himself, without anybody else’s “assistance.” The person gets in, provides voice commands and acknowledgement of disclaimers, and then the machine seals, pumps oxygen out and nitrogen in, suffocating the person.
Nitschke says self-killing is a basic human right, and almost all of the people The New York Times or the UK’s Independent quote when discussing the Australian’s euthanasia advocacy agree. So why do both articles end with a block telling you how to reach a suicide prevention center if you’re having thoughts about killing yourself? It’s a puzzlement.
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Today’s Barbarians Beguile People So That They May Kill Them
Dutch designer Alexander Bannink explains how the Sarco euthanasia machine works as a man experiences sitting in the device by wearing virtual reality glasses, on April 14, 2018, at the Amsterdam Funeral Expo. (photo: Jasper Juinen / AFP via Getty Images)
When the trains bringing people to Auschwitz for killing pulled into the station, there was often a small orchestra playing on the platform. The Germans wanted people to see how “civilized” they were. Music also tended to calm people and allay their suspicions.
Music seems also apropos to the Western drive toward euthanasia. A particularly apt piece comes from musical The King and I. The King sings about puzzlements.
Australian euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has invented “Sarco,” a futuristic “pod” that resembles a cockpit, designed to allow somebody who wants to kill himself to so all by himself, without anybody else’s “assistance.” The person gets in, provides voice commands and acknowledgement of disclaimers, and then the machine seals, pumps oxygen out and nitrogen in, suffocating the person.
Nitschke says self-killing is a basic human right, and almost all of the people The New York Times or the UK’s Independent quote when discussing the Australian’s euthanasia advocacy agree. So why do both articles end with a block telling you how to reach a suicide prevention center if you’re having thoughts about killing yourself? It’s a puzzlement.
Continued below.
Today’s Barbarians Beguile People So That They May Kill Them
