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We Are Becoming Pro-Suicide

We Are Becoming Pro-Suicide
A man experiences the inside of the "Sarco" suicide device through using virtual reality glasses at the Amsterdam Funeral Expo in Amsterdam on April 14, 2018. Jasper Juinen/AFP via Getty Images
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Just what the world didn’t need—a suicide machine that promises to make users die pleasurably in just 30 seconds. Ready or not, it’s here. The Sarco Suicide Pod has been approved for use in Switzerland, a country that already accommodates “suicide tourism,” that is, for-pay clinics that people attend from around the world to be made dead.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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