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{{Short description|Machine allowing an individual to die quickly with minimal pain}}
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A '''euthanasia device''' is a machine engineered to allow an individual to die quickly with minimal pain. The most common devices are those designed to help [[terminally ill]] people die by [[voluntary euthanasia]] or [[assisted suicide]] without prolonged [[pain]]. They may be operated by a second party, such as a [[physician]], or by the person wishing to die. There is an ongoing debate on the [[ethics]] of euthanasia and the use of euthanasia devices.
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===Deliverance Machine===
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The Deliverance Machine was invented by [[Philip Nitschke]]. It consisted of software entitled Deliverance, that came on a special laptop that could be connected to an IV in a person's arm. The computer program asked a series of questions to confirm the person's intent to die that being:
1." Are you aware that if you go ahead to the last screen and press the “Yes” button, you will be given a lethal dose of medications and die?"
2. "Are you certain you understand that if you proceed and press the “Yes” button on the next screen that you will die?"
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====Background====
The basic principle of autoeuthanasia by anoxia was first described in the book ''[[Final Exit]]'' by [[Derek Humphry]] in 1991.<ref name=Humphry1991>{{Cite book|last=Humphry|first=Derek|year=1991|title=Final Exit: the Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying|isbn=978-0-385-33653-6|publisher=Delta Trade Paperback|location=New York}}</ref> The original methodology was devised, using helium, by the ''NuTech'' group.<ref>{{cite news |last=Martindale |first=Diane |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-culture-of-death/ |title=A Culture of Death |work=[[Scientific American]] |publisher=[[Scientific American]] |date=2005-06-01 |access-date=2016-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115081639/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-culture-of-death/ |archive-date=2016-01-15 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.finalexit.org/ergo_nutech_new_technology.html |title=NuTech Report |work=ERGO |access-date=2016-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923090114/http://www.finalexit.org/ergo_nutech_new_technology.html |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=live }}</ref>
====Description====
Nitschke described his device as a modification of the exit bag with helium method described in ''[[The Peaceful Pill Handbook]]''. Helium was replaced by a cylinder of compressed nitrogen and a regulator to supply the nitrogen into a plastic bag. One advantage of this method was the availability of larger amounts of nitrogen and flow rates last longer. Nitschke states that nitrogen is also more physiologically inert than helium, with less chance of adverse reaction,<ref name="pph" /> and that loss of consciousness is quick with death following within minutes.<ref name="pph" /> Unlike helium cylinders, nitrogen cylinders can be refilled in the event of leakage and nitrogen gas can't be detected during an autopsy.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-01-14/test-detects-suicides-from-natural-deaths/1208578 |title=Test detects suicides from natural deaths |work=ABC News |publisher=www.abc.net.au |date=14 January 2010 |access-date=2010-01-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110170945/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-01-14/test-detects-suicides-from-natural-deaths/1208578 |archive-date=10 November 2012 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/euthanasia-group-to-show-west-aussies-how-to-die-well-20130503-2ixgd.html |title=Euthanasia group to show West Aussies how to die 'well' |author=Orr, Aleisha |date=3 May 2013 |work=WAToday |access-date=8 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507052456/http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/euthanasia-group-to-show-west-aussies-how-to-die-well-20130503-2ixgd.html |archive-date=7 May 2013 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
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Modern writer [[Martin Amis]] provoked a small controversy in January 2010 when he facetiously advocated "suicide booths" for the elderly, of whom he wrote:
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Following Archer's statement in 1893, the 1895 story "[[The Repairer of Reputations]]" by [[Robert W. Chambers]] featured the [[Governor of New York]] presiding over the opening of the first "Government Lethal Chamber" in the then-future year of 1920, after the repeal of laws against suicide:
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However, as Chambers's protagonist who relates the story is suffering from brain damage, it remains ambiguous whether or not he is an [[unreliable narrator]].
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====In other media====
In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' episode "[[A Taste of Armageddon]]", people who were deemed war casualties by the government of Eminiar VII were required to enter suicide booths. Treaty arrangements require that everyone who is calculated as "dead" in the hypothetical thermonuclear war simulated using computers actually die, without actually damaging any infrastructure. In the end, the computers are destroyed, the war can no longer be calculated in this way, the treaty breaks down, and faced with a real threat, (presumably) peace begins.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} After the [[Heaven's Gate (religious group)|Heaven's Gate]] mass suicide event was linked by tabloids to an extreme fascination with science fiction and ''Star Trek'' in particular it was noted that multiple episodes, including "A Taste of Armageddon", actually advocated an anti-suicide standpoint as opposed to the viewpoint expressed by the Heaven's Gate group.<ref name="Phoenix New Times">{{cite web| url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1998-03-26/calendar/sci-fi-so-good/| author=Moorhead, M.V.| title=Sci-Fi, So Good| date=1998-03-26| access-date=2007-11-02| archive-date=2008-12-06| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206005543/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1998-03-26/calendar/sci-fi-so-good/| url-status=dead}}</ref>
In the [[The Simpsons
==See also==
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