as well as a fee of €95 ($105) for 24 months of access
Ah, there it is. The death subscription.
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I'm not paying 4 bucks a month unless it's ad free
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I bet they don't get very many cancellations either.
You can't tell me that's not part of the business model...
The last thing you'll ever need to pirate.
At least the Jolly Roger flag is very appropriate, in this case 🏴☠️
The design files and software will probably be pirate-able within a couple of years.
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I never thought the rich would paywall dying.
Really? Back in the day even Charon took his cut.
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Here's my proposal:
I've heard the claim numerous times that people leave a tremendous carbon footprint. Each person would be assigned a certain amount of "carbon credits" that their life is worth, and the value slowly declines as they get older. If they choose to, one can hop in the expiration bin and donate those remaining credits to a cause of their choice: they can give them to their children, family, or friends, donate them to a charity or research group, etc.
I can just imagine the ads where companies try to compel you to take the early-expiration route while relinquishing your credits to them "for the greater good" or some other such nonsense
Children mass-produced for the glorious stream of carbon credits it would award
Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla et al provide "expiration tanks" in convenient places that send the credits directly to them after each "donation"
Wtf i need to go back to sleep, lol
Night night lemmy ✨
Thanks Satan
sounds like a black mirror episode, you should contact charlie brooker
Charlie Brooker stopped making Black Mirror because of that user
He stopped making them because they kept coming true.
I think I can cope with most of them except White Christmas.
That’s somewhat similar to the plot of the movie Plan 75.
“In a dystopian alternate reality, the Japanese government creates a program called "Plan 75" that offers free euthanasia services to all Japanese citizens 75 and older in order to deal with its rapidly aging population.”
It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people.
Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
Waiting for the reviews
It being 3D printed is the least relevant part of this. But it has to be in the headline to get clicks. But it apparently also has to be the lead? "Molecule based "suicide pod'...", "Carbon neutral 'suicide pod'...", "Self actualized 'suicide pod'...", "Corporate sponsored 'suicide pod'..."
There aren't many things you could put in front of the real story here that change the story without creating an even bigger story. And 3D printed is definitely not one of them.
AI-powered suicide pod, powered by blockchain NFTs SLAMMED by Trump campaign.
There - all the clicks you can eat now.
"Mandatory"
Oh, that's nice. Well done.
Corporate sponsored ‘suicide pod’
ROFL. I can even imagine the scene of someone going through the... you know, the thing... and while oofing they see a big screen "This pod is sponsored by Grim Reaper Funeral Home, the angel at your service".
It won't take long for a "Corporate sponsored ‘suicide pod’ Vanced AdBlocked PainBlocked".
No one to morn you!?
Choose Carl the Cannibal!
He'll savor you!
McDonald's: The McRib is back!
The register is a tech magazine, so the DIY/3D printed angle is relevant here. It's also relevant because it would, at least to some degree, allow someone to build it themselves in places where perhaps the legality of self determination is questionable. The Register is not a place where you'll normally find unnecessary clickbait headlines.
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Death with dignity should be an essential human right.
It is, we just don't have it.
“You are now dead. Thank you for using Stop’n’Drop: America’s favorite suicide booth since 2008!”
We truly live in the future
has also been working on an implant that would be able to euthanize Alzheimer patients unable to make their own care decisions, and told us the first one has been built. It will only be loaded with saline to test the timing technology used in the implant, we're told.
Fuck yeah. Family members, nor the state, can be trusted to execute a demented persons wishes — wishes they were made while still of sound mind. I was already planning on building a suicide machine if I'm ever diagnosed (customised gas mask + nitrous oxide or nitrogen tank probably). Having autonomous, simple, well tested, painless options would prevent me having to waste my time on that.
This thing is exactly my exit strategy. My living will gives my wife absolute authority to decide to terminate my life if she sees fit; whether or not the state would allow it is another matter, but at least my wishes are known. These include conditions of cognitive decline; my step-father recently passed after a protracted decade of horrific decline, and no fucking way all I going through that.
While you've got a more pragmatic solution, to be frank, if I'm going I'd like to do so with some guarantees and comfort. I'm not comfortable with the risk of accidentally half-assing the attempt with something I jury-rigged and end up with brain damage and the inability to complete the job. I'm hoping that some state will have the balls to jump into suicide tourism and open clinics full of these specific devices, so if things get bad and I'm still able to travel, I can go in some comfort.
I'm fucked if I'm comatose, because most options are simply removing support and letting the patient starve to death, and I fear being conscious (enough) through that protracted process.
We have such shit laws in this country (USA) about giving people autonomy over their end-of-life process.
People still think this is a suicide pod, while it is used by robots to generate electricity.
- Looks over at Ender 3
Hehe, by the time it finished printing something that size, I might have expired of natural causes!
the 3d printing part is only aesthetical, people have been taking their lifes by just using a bag or whatever else can contain the nitrogen from a tank
Yeah but that's boring. I'm not going to die in a pedestrian manner, it's got to be in a cool sci-fi way or I'm not doing it.
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Plastic bag: am I a joke to you?
Hardly a pleasant way to go...
The suicide bag uses a similar process as the suicide pod, but is very much DIY. Shouldn't be too uncomfortable unless you're claustrophobic.
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How long until someone murders a person with one of these as a cover up?
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... and the people involved were arrested
Used by a human for the first time……. and last?
is this on thingiverse?
Whatever you do don't mix it up with your interstellar suspended animation pod.
How long before the first Sleepshop opens?
So these aren't cool mice? Because I was excited when I thought they were cool mice.
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