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In a first, an American woman used a suicide pod to take her own life. The process took place in Switzerland. It's done by pumping in only nitrogen gas, so the person will lose goes dizzy, loses consciousness and eventually dies. Enter futurama memes.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ok. I just read this as a way to die in an Andy Weir novel

The book also makes a pretty good case for heroin as a suicide method. I was swayed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

One would think that it's quite pleasurable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

as far as I know you just choke to death, sometimes on your own vomit