Maren Cogan

So in the 1942 Swiss Criminal Code, they basically added a provision that says that assisted suicide for selfish purposes was explicitly outlawed. Now, by omission, that meant that assisted suicide for non-selfish purposes was allowed. And it kind of all took off from there. It was the first country that sort of explicitly allowed it in its criminalization. criminal code.

So in the 1942 Swiss Criminal Code, they basically added a provision that says that assisted suicide for selfish purposes was explicitly outlawed. Now, by omission, that meant that assisted suicide for non-selfish purposes was allowed. And it kind of all took off from there. It was the first country that sort of explicitly allowed it in its criminalization. criminal code.

So in the 1942 Swiss Criminal Code, they basically added a provision that says that assisted suicide for selfish purposes was explicitly outlawed. Now, by omission, that meant that assisted suicide for non-selfish purposes was allowed. And it kind of all took off from there. It was the first country that sort of explicitly allowed it in its criminalization. criminal code.

But most of the people who are seeking assisted suicides, most of them are Swiss. Some of them come from other parts of the world. Most of them are elderly and at the end of their lives and have some condition that is going to reasonably bring about their death sometime in the near future.

But most of the people who are seeking assisted suicides, most of them are Swiss. Some of them come from other parts of the world. Most of them are elderly and at the end of their lives and have some condition that is going to reasonably bring about their death sometime in the near future.

But most of the people who are seeking assisted suicides, most of them are Swiss. Some of them come from other parts of the world. Most of them are elderly and at the end of their lives and have some condition that is going to reasonably bring about their death sometime in the near future.

Yeah, there has been a really high level of consensus in Switzerland around the practice of assisted suicide for decades now. And anytime the Swiss people, they do a lot of direct democracy in this country, anytime the Swiss people are asked whether they'd like to overturn assisted suicide, the answer is pretty resoundingly no.

Yeah, there has been a really high level of consensus in Switzerland around the practice of assisted suicide for decades now. And anytime the Swiss people, they do a lot of direct democracy in this country, anytime the Swiss people are asked whether they'd like to overturn assisted suicide, the answer is pretty resoundingly no.

Yeah, there has been a really high level of consensus in Switzerland around the practice of assisted suicide for decades now. And anytime the Swiss people, they do a lot of direct democracy in this country, anytime the Swiss people are asked whether they'd like to overturn assisted suicide, the answer is pretty resoundingly no.

But that's kind of all been upended with the invention of a new technology, the suicide pod. So this is a pod. It looks sort of like a tanning bed from the future. You can buy nitrogen gas cheaply and you hook it up to this pod. You lay down inside the pod. The pod asks you if you're prepared to die, essentially, and you say yes and hit a button.

But that's kind of all been upended with the invention of a new technology, the suicide pod. So this is a pod. It looks sort of like a tanning bed from the future. You can buy nitrogen gas cheaply and you hook it up to this pod. You lay down inside the pod. The pod asks you if you're prepared to die, essentially, and you say yes and hit a button.

But that's kind of all been upended with the invention of a new technology, the suicide pod. So this is a pod. It looks sort of like a tanning bed from the future. You can buy nitrogen gas cheaply and you hook it up to this pod. You lay down inside the pod. The pod asks you if you're prepared to die, essentially, and you say yes and hit a button.

It fills the chamber that you're in with nitrogen gas and you pass away. And it was invented by, I would say he's the world's most prominent and strident right to die advocate. He's actually an Australian named Dr. Philip Nitschke.

It fills the chamber that you're in with nitrogen gas and you pass away. And it was invented by, I would say he's the world's most prominent and strident right to die advocate. He's actually an Australian named Dr. Philip Nitschke.

It fills the chamber that you're in with nitrogen gas and you pass away. And it was invented by, I would say he's the world's most prominent and strident right to die advocate. He's actually an Australian named Dr. Philip Nitschke.

It's called SARCO, short for sarcophagus, and the idea is to revolutionize assisted suicide by taking doctors out of the picture. How long does that take? Well, so it's only been used once so far, and it was a very controversial case. It can take several minutes.

It's called SARCO, short for sarcophagus, and the idea is to revolutionize assisted suicide by taking doctors out of the picture. How long does that take? Well, so it's only been used once so far, and it was a very controversial case. It can take several minutes.

It's called SARCO, short for sarcophagus, and the idea is to revolutionize assisted suicide by taking doctors out of the picture. How long does that take? Well, so it's only been used once so far, and it was a very controversial case. It can take several minutes.

It's been used once by an American woman who came to Switzerland to be the first person to use the sarcopod to end her life. Now, if she had just come to Switzerland to end her life using the standard Swiss protocol, I think we probably would have never heard of this case. But the fact that she used the sarcopod has been massively controversial, and I think it has really

It's been used once by an American woman who came to Switzerland to be the first person to use the sarcopod to end her life. Now, if she had just come to Switzerland to end her life using the standard Swiss protocol, I think we probably would have never heard of this case. But the fact that she used the sarcopod has been massively controversial, and I think it has really