Is the new euthanasia capsule truly painless?

Death is a long and painful process for most people, because the direct cause of death for most people is disease. It is for this reason that some countries allow a special way of death called "euthanasia."

There is no doubt that euthanasia is a blessing for people who are seriously ill and hopeless. It can reduce the pain of patients at the end of their lives and allow them to die with dignity. So how is euthanasia implemented? There are three main traditional euthanasia methods: oral sleeping pills, cyanide injections, and blood coagulant injections. Is euthanasia painful? It cannot be said that there is absolutely no pain, which can be understood from the way euthanasia is implemented. Oral sleeping pills need to be used with central anesthetics at the same time, and the principle is to suffocate the patient to death. Injection of blood coagulants blocks blood vessels, stopping the patient's blood flow and causing death.

Compared with the first two methods of euthanasia, injecting cyanide sounds more terrifying because cyanide itself is a poison. After being injected into the human body, human cells will lose the ability to use oxygen normally due to the destruction of cyanide, and will eventually die of heart failure.

However, these traditional euthanasia methods may gradually withdraw from the stage of history. In order to further improve the patient experience, Swiss researchers have developed a new euthanasia capsule machine. Compared with traditional euthanasia methods, this new machine can be truly painless and panic-free. Patients do not need to inject any drugs, they just need to lie calmly in the capsule, and the decision is always in the hands of the patients themselves. Patients can choose when to start the machine.

Once the machine is started, nitrogen will be sprayed out immediately, and the oxygen content will quickly drop from 21% to 1%. The patient's consciousness will gradually become blurred, and he may even feel excited, and then he will quickly lose consciousness until he dies. The whole process takes only 30 seconds.

The lethal principle of the new euthanasia capsule machine is actually very simple. Because the nitrogen content surges and the oxygen content decreases, the partial pressure of oxygen inhaled by the human body decreases, causing hypoxic asphyxiation. The advent of the euthanasia capsule machine has further improved the experience of euthanasia patients and made more people look forward to the legalization of euthanasia. So, since euthanasia is so good, why don't we allow it? Because legalizing euthanasia involves many issues, and if these issues are not properly resolved, they may bury major hidden dangers.

First of all, from a legal perspective, people have the right to live, which is called the right to life and health, but do people have the right to die? This is a question worth discussing.

If people have the right to die, then a new question will arise: does preventing others from dying constitute an infringement? Of course, the legal problem is not unsolvable, it just takes some time. The biggest problem with euthanasia lies in the social level. The first is the definition of euthanasia. What kind of people are allowed to have euthanasia? Who decides on euthanasia? Who will review it? If these issues are not handled well, "forced euthanasia" may occur. Some people hope to leave with dignity, but there are also many people who, although they are seriously ill, believe that it is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death, and live one more day at a time. Once euthanasia is legalized, some people will be forced to "actively choose euthanasia" due to "soft pressure" or "hard pressure" from their families. How can this be avoided?

Euthanasia also involves an issue of review, and review is a right. As long as it involves rights, corruption may occur. Once corruption occurs, what will be deprived is no longer the people’s property, but their lives. What should we do?

From another perspective, once people have the right to euthanasia, their tolerance for life and disease will decrease. Without euthanasia, patients can only fight the disease to death, and sometimes miracles will happen, or they will defeat the disease or prolong their life. High-level paraplegic patients may also inspire the will to survive and find a new meaning of survival, thus expanding the breadth of life. No one is born with steel-like perseverance. Perseverance is awakened in suffering. Once euthanasia is legalized, many people may end their lives more easily.

Finally, euthanasia is also a subversion for doctors, because the medical ethics education that doctors have always received is "never give up on any patient", and legalizing euthanasia means that the professional ethics that doctors have always followed will be subverted, which may lead to unknown impacts.

There are actually many problems that need to be solved to legalize euthanasia, which is why most countries do not allow euthanasia except for a few countries such as Switzerland, the Netherlands, and France. Of course, all problems can be solved, but the situation in each country is different, so the problems that need to be solved and the problems that may arise are also very different. It is undeniable that euthanasia is reasonable, but it is not necessary. A non-essential thing has many problems that need to be solved, which determines that it cannot be launched hastily, so we still need to wait.

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