I'm glad more options for a peaceful chosen death are becoming available.
Between a sudden, unexpected death and dying in pain from a progressive disease, my "ideal" way to die would be chosen death before a progressive disease becomes bad enough to cross some personal threshold of suffering.
At the same time, I plan to do whatever I reasonably can to prolong my life (and its quality) for as long as possible.
Hopefully by the time this becomes relevant more options like this capsule and others will be readily available.
Having said that, his quote about an AI giving you permission to die seems a bit preposterous. The actual method of death he described sounds reasonable, but I don't know that I'd want a machine to permit me to end my own life. Not that having to get a doctor's permission sounds any better. Ideally, nobody should have a say over a life but the individual themselves. I recognize in saying this though that it isn't really that simple, and that there are complex nuances with potential undue influence family members or others surrounding a person can have in the situation.
> my "ideal" way to die would be chosen death before a progressive disease becomes bad enough to cross some personal threshold of suffering.
It is a long time I wish there was some kind of deice you can implant in your body that would release poison when not responding to some kind of regular request. This would at least solve neurological cases (either degenerative, or alive in a coma which is terrifying, or vegetative state)
Yup. There are a lot of ways to die that are worse than dying. Why bother with the pod, though? A big plastic bag and a tank of nitrogen can do the same thing.
Between a sudden, unexpected death and dying in pain from a progressive disease, my "ideal" way to die would be chosen death before a progressive disease becomes bad enough to cross some personal threshold of suffering.
At the same time, I plan to do whatever I reasonably can to prolong my life (and its quality) for as long as possible.
Hopefully by the time this becomes relevant more options like this capsule and others will be readily available.
Having said that, his quote about an AI giving you permission to die seems a bit preposterous. The actual method of death he described sounds reasonable, but I don't know that I'd want a machine to permit me to end my own life. Not that having to get a doctor's permission sounds any better. Ideally, nobody should have a say over a life but the individual themselves. I recognize in saying this though that it isn't really that simple, and that there are complex nuances with potential undue influence family members or others surrounding a person can have in the situation.