The Suicide Booths from Futurama are real?!

Listen as we talk about The Sarco Suicide Pod, invented by euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke. 

The concept of a capsule that could produce a rapid decrease in oxygen level, while maintaining a low CO2 level, (the conditions for a peaceful, even euphoric death) was the belief behind the Sarco. The Sarco pod is a euthanasia device or machine consisting of a 3D-printed detachable capsule mounted on a stand that contains a canister of liquid nitrogen to die by suicide through inert gas asphyxiation. "Sarco" is short for "sarcophagus" It is used in conjunction with an inert gas (nitrogen) which prevents the panic, sense of suffocation and struggling before unconsciousness, known as the hypercapnic alarm response  caused by the presence of high carbon dioxide concentrations in the blood. The design of the device was a collaboration between Nitschke and Dutch industrial designer Alexander Bannink. Sarco is 3D-printed in sections measuring 1,000 by 500 by 500 millimetres (39 by 20 by 20 in). The design software allows for devices of different sizes to be made according to the client's dimensions. Philip Nitsche is a former medical doctor and in 1996 he helped four of his terminally I'll patients to die using Australia's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. Philip has designed several end of life machines. the deliverance machine is on permanent display in the British science Museum in London. Nitschke has said that the design is intended to resemble that of a spaceship, in order to give users the feel that they are traveling to the "great beyond."

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