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'Suicide pod' is completely legal and approved for use in Switzerland (www.unilad.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I find it quite interesting that we can provide someone with a calm and peaceful death, but prisons in many countries can't do any better than "ouch that looks pretty terrible" to "oh my god that's torturous!"... Nevermind the morals around whether the state should kill someone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

It’s humanity theater, it’s intentionally awful as a deterrent.