There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
I would NOT want to be the person who had to get in that thing for those press photos.
I’d rather people kill themselves cleanly, painlessly and successfully, that fail to do it, suffer and be made prisoners of others more than they were already of themselves.
what was wrong with the iv with a self-administerable dose via death button approach? not expensive enough for dead people or what
would the current methods for administering nitrogen not work?
Terry Pratchett made a very insightful documentary on euthanasia, including filming someone choosing to die at the Swiss dignitas foundation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett:_Choosing_to_Die
“I’ve always wanted to remove the role [and the] need for professional people to prescribe difficult drugs to use.”
You probably will still need a doctor to declare death and in case anything fails. The drugs are not difficult to use. You just take a pill to suppress vomiting and after an hour drink 100ml of liquid. If anything goes wrong the doctor will inject drugs while your still unconscious. Maybe some people would prefer the pod but for me it looks like a gimmick.