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Hello BoonDock!

** On Monday 06.12.21 - 16:15, BoonDock wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> *Swiss SUICIDE POD passes legal barrier - could start
 AA>> operations next year*

 B> All round, I think this is a good idea. I've seen what
 B> happens when someone struggles on in pain.. my great-
 B> grandmother took eight years to die, with her mind sharp
 B> and her body falling apart. It was a blessed relief when
 B> she went.

The first book of the imagined world of Lois Lowry, The Giver,  
depicts... "a society that knows no pain, grief or death. When  
the Community members hears of someone being "released" (a  
euphemism for "euthanized by lethal injection"), they believe  
they're being sent to a mystical place called Elsewhere. The  
old, the disabled and the extremely weak are systemically taken  
away to be "released." The same fate awaits anyone who doesn't  
fit properly in the Community, like a newborn who doesn't  
develop fast enough or doesn't sleep at night. A "release" was  
also a punishment for those deemed as having committed great  
failure."

It's like communist/socialist world where everything is decided  
for the individual by a group of elders.

If I recall correctly, the film "Soylent Green" also depicts  
the opportinity people (mostly the elderly) can choose when to  
die by visiting a special center for "processing".

I have one problem with the Swiss SUICIDE POD design. If that  
where me in there, I might long to hold someone's hand during  
the process.  I held my mom's hand in her last moments.  Up  
until the last second, her grip was quite fierce as I was also  
able to be real close, stroke her hair and arms and talk to  
her.
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