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[-] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

why did it need to be 3D printed

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Why does it need to be a pod??

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

that's true. it could be a garbage disposal instead

[-] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago

We truly live in the future

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

is this on thingiverse?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

So these aren't cool mice? Because I was excited when I thought they were cool mice.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

“You are now dead. Thank you for using Stop’n’Drop: America’s favorite suicide booth since 2008!”

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

How long until someone murders a person with one of these as a cover up?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Do you want to have a perfect tanned skin?

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago

Death with dignity should be an essential human right.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

It is, we just don't have it.

[-] [email protected] 157 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

as well as a fee of €95 ($105) for 24 months of access

Ah, there it is. The death subscription.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Deal breaker, it should be one time fee

[-] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago

GamePassAway

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I bet they don't get very many cancellations either.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can't tell me that's not part of the business model...

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

The last thing you'll ever need to pirate.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At least the Jolly Roger flag is very appropriate, in this case 🏴‍☠️

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

I'm not paying 4 bucks a month unless it's ad free

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Please Select Your 90-Second Ad Experience While Your Sarco Pod Initiates

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

I never thought the rich would paywall dying.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Really? Back in the day even Charon took his cut.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

The design files and software will probably be pirate-able within a couple of years.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

You joke but it'll happen eventually

[-] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Asphyxiation is never not successfull.
Let it run for an 8h and if the oxygen sensor doesnt report any leak than I'd say "He's dead jim".

[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

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".

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

No one to morn you!?

Choose Carl the Cannibal!

He'll savor you!


McDonald's: The McRib is back!

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

AI-powered suicide pod, powered by blockchain NFTs SLAMMED by Trump campaign.

There - all the clicks you can eat now.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Oh, that's nice. Well done.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

How long before the first Sleepshop opens?

[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago

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 ✨

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago

Thanks Satan

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

sounds like a black mirror episode, you should contact charlie brooker

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Charlie Brooker stopped making Black Mirror because of that user

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He stopped making them because they kept coming true.

I think I can cope with most of them except White Christmas.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

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.”

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

People still think this is a suicide pod, while it is used by robots to generate electricity.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago
  • Looks over at Ender 3

Hehe, by the time it finished printing something that size, I might have expired of natural causes!

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Plastic bag: am I a joke to you?

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Used by a human for the first time……. and last?

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