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Inventor of controversial 3D-printed suicide pod claims it 'could be legal' in UK

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machine designed to painlessly end the lives of elderly or very ill patients has claimed it could be legally used in the UK one day.Dr Philip Nitschke developed his SarcoPod “suicide machine” after watching dying patients’ lives being ended with overdoses of painkillers.The device – a futuristic coffin-like chamber which can be filled with a colourless, odourless gas –is designed to give users a “slightly tipsy” feeling that soon results in a painless death.“The original idea came from the UK,” he says, referring to the case of Tony Nicklinson who fought a legal battle for the right to end his life after being paralysed from the neck down due to a stroke in 2005.“His argument was that he couldn’t commit suicide because he had locked-in.

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