{"id":1654,"date":"2024-08-27T19:06:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/controversial-suicide-pod-dubbed-the-tesla-of-euthanasia-to-be-used-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T19:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:06:26","slug":"controversial-suicide-pod-dubbed-the-tesla-of-euthanasia-to-be-used-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/controversial-suicide-pod-dubbed-the-tesla-of-euthanasia-to-be-used-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial suicide pod dubbed the &#8216;Tesla of euthanasia&#8217; to be used for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A suicide pod dubbed the \u201cTesla of euthanasia\u201d will be used for the first time next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exitinternational.net\/sarco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sarco<\/a>, a 3D-printed capsule, was unveiled at the Venice Design Festival in 2019 and reportedly offers a painless death within 10 minutes of entering with the push of a button, <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2024\/07\/11\/suicide-pod-dubbed-tesla-euthanasia-banned-switzerland-21205625\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported Metro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It works by flooding the chamber with nitrogen, which reduces oxygen levels so fast that the person inside loses consciousness within the first minute. The person will then have a \u201cpeaceful, even euphoric\u201d death within 10 minutes, according to the company site.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Fiona Stewart, a member&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/17\/lifestyle\/controversial-suicide-pod-dubbed-the-tesla-of-euthanasia-to-be-used-for-the-first-time\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide pod dubbed the \u201cTesla of euthanasia\u201d will be used for the first time next week. Sarco, a 3D-printed capsule, was unveiled at the Venice Design Festival in 2019 and reportedly offers a painless death within 10 minutes of entering with the push of a button, reported Metro. It works by flooding the chamber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}