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The Suicide Pod Business Begins

from Florida Hurricanes & Rich Nothings | The Tim Dillon Show #411 · #411

3 min

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Tim discusses the first use of the Sarco suicide pod in Switzerland, predicting an industry will emerge to make suicide easy and marketable, eventually for depressed or indebted people rather than just the terminally ill.

In this bit5 moments
  • The Sarco suicide pod has been used for the first time, something Tim has been tracking and discussing on the show.
  • Tim argues the people running life have stopped trying to make things better and are now just allowing people to kill themselves.
  • It starts with terminally ill people in pain, but Tim predicts it will expand to depressed people and those drowning in debt.
  • In Canada, people in financial despair are using assisted suicide as a way out, which Tim describes as a grim policy direction.
  • Tim observes that the suicide pod comes with instructions to press a button, and jokes that commercials for it are inevitable.
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