# Suicide pods now legal in Switzerland **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 8, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-pods-now-legal-in-switzerland/955740 "2021-12-08T23:22:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 120
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-pods-now-legal-in-switzerland/955740/120 "2021-12-13T14:20:50Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I used to be an orderly in a nursing home in my younger days, and I watched as human beings slipped into dementia and/or died of cancer or some other painful disease. How much pain should they be forced to suffer through, how much indignity should they be forced to go through just to make you, a total stranger to them, feel better emotionally. Can you offer them something better than the pipe dream of " several _decades_ of a life well lived"? **[My mom died a medically-assisted death a few years ago.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-medical-aid-in-dying/810627/12)** She was terminally ill, and her quality of life had diminished to pretty much nothing. I’m glad she had that option available, and it saddens me to know that there are people out there who would deny that option to others like her. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-pods-now-legal-in-switzerland/955740)._