Design files will be available soon, but no word yet on the software
  • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
    164·
    2 个月前

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

    Ah, there it is. The death subscription.

  • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    773·
    2 个月前

    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 ✨

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          8·
          2 个月前

          He stopped making them because they kept coming true.

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

    • patrick@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish
      10·
      2 个月前

      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.”

    • curry@programming.devEnglish
      8·
      2 个月前

      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”

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldEnglish
    611·
    2 个月前

    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.

    • podperson@lemm.eeEnglish
      361·
      2 个月前

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

      There - all the clicks you can eat now.

    • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      191·
      2 个月前

      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”.

      • Veneroso@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        2 个月前

        No one to morn you!?

        Choose Carl the Cannibal!

        He’ll savor you!

        McDonald’s: The McRib is back!

    • FMT99@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      2 个月前

      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.

    • vonxylofon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      It’s kind of a big deal if you can’t legally do this (and as it happens, you can’t where they did it) by implying you can circumvent the law this way.

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    2 个月前

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

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 个月前

    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.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍English
      15·
      2 个月前

      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.

  • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 个月前
    • Looks over at Ender 3

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

  • Default_DefectEnglish
    181·
    2 个月前

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

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      Perhaps due to the reasons that executed prisoners need to be injected with a suspicious cocktail of drugs. No company wants to be connected to the death of a person. Perhaps they are worried they won’t be able to supply parts and components once the news gets out about what their product does.

    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 个月前

      My print keeps failing! Can I just use a trash barrel? Lol. I don’t understand at all why one would need or want to 3D print anything.