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In a first, an American woman used a suicide pod to take her own life. The process took place in Switzerland. It's done by pumping in only nitrogen gas, so the person will lose goes dizzy, loses consciousness and eventually dies. Enter futurama memes.

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[–] MyDogLovesMe 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok. I just read this as a way to die in an Andy Weir novel

The book also makes a pretty good case for heroin as a suicide method. I was swayed.

[–] trashgirlfriend 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One would think that it's quite pleasurable

[–] trashgirlfriend 1 points 2 months ago

as far as I know you just choke to death, sometimes on your own vomit