The ‘Suicide Capsule’ Claims Its First Victim
This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author. The ghoulish Australian “doctor” Philip Nitschke has long been obsessed with making suicide readily available to anyone who wants to die. Indeed, years ago, he told NRO’s Kathryn Jean Lopez that he wanted what he called “peaceful” suicide pills sold in supermarkets, even to “troubled teens.” Nitschke also sold plastic suicide bags in Australia (which I helped cause to be outlawed when I busted him for his ghoulishness in the national media there in 2001). Subsequently, he traveled the world teaching how-to-commit-suicide classes and starred at international death-movement conventions. Awful. More recently, Nitschke made world headlines in the assisted-suicide-boosting media for inventing a “suicide capsule” that asphyxiates the suicidal person with nitrogen. At first, Swiss authorities said it would be legal, and then they backtracked. This video shows how the capsule works but you must proceed through suicide hotline-type warnings. Legal or not, it appears the capsule was used by an American woman to become dead in Switzerland. From the AP story: Exit International, an assisted suicide group based in …
