A former top-level German politician has invented what he calls a "suicide machine" for terminally ill patients who want to die. "It is the most bearable method for those with a death wish," Roger Kusch told CNN at a presentation of the machine.The device is a modified perfusor, a machine normally used to inject medicine over a long period of time, and Kusch has installed a button that allows the patient to set off the mechanism.
Kusch believes that way the patient is technically killing himself, protecting doctors who would assist by mixing the toxins and setting up the device.
According to Kusch's method, the suicide machine would administer an anesthetic and a lethal dose of potassium chloride, which would lead to death within minutes.
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