A random mental walk.

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

'Press this button to die'/David Blue

 Who knew?  A Do-It-Yourself suicide machine (https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20240717-first-suicide-pod-use-soon-in-switzerland-campaigners).

It's not yet available, but Switzerland may be the first place you can off yourself for only $20.   By quickly replacing the oxygen with nitrogen in the capsule the user dies of hypoxia in about 5 minutes.

I spent an hour searching in vane looking for a reference to a song with the lyric remembered as a "suicide machine strapped across their chests".  

Thinking it was from David Blue song I ended up reading David Blue's Rolling Stone obit  (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/david-blue-singer-songwriter-mystery-bob-dylan-joni-mitchell-1005073/) with a side trip reading about Judee Sills before finding that what I was misremembering:
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
from Bob Dylan's "Desolation Road" on his “Highway 61 Revisited” album.

One fact in a BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59577162) mesmerized me: text in the body of the story indicated that the blueprints for the capsule would be available for free. Under the picture of the capsule I saw this:

I can see adapting part of it for my Engineering Drawing class.

I passed along articles about the Sarco Capsule to people as a franchise opportunity.




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