{"id":14230,"date":"2024-09-13T17:51:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T17:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=14230"},"modified":"2024-09-13T17:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T17:51:49","slug":"couple-who-will-die-together-in-controversial-double-suicide-pod-will-have-their-deaths-recorded-for-an-important-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=14230","title":{"rendered":"Couple who will die together in controversial double suicide pod will have their deaths recorded for an important reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elderly couple Peter and Christine Scott are planning on ending their lives side-by-side<\/h2>\n

A couple who want to die in a double suicide pod will have their deaths recorded on camera.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter and Christine Scott plan on dying together by travelling to Switzerland and using\u00a0the controversial pod<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Scotts are the first British couple to sign up for the assisted way of dying after\u00a0Christine was diagnosed with vascular dementia<\/a>\u00a0– a cruel and incurable disease that’s said to affect 150,000 people in the\u00a0UK<\/a>, where the couple are from.<\/p>\n

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The 3D printed capsules will assist people in dying (Exit International)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Dr Philip Nitschke, the founder of Exit International, is the creator of the pods and he believes that it is a ‘fundamental human right of every adult of sound mind, to be able to plan for the end of their life in a way that is reliable, peaceful & at a time of their choosing’.<\/p>\n

Speaking about their decision to travel abroad for the purpose of assisted dying, Peter said his and Christine’s ages were a contributing factor.<\/p>\n

“We have had long, happy, healthy, fulfilled lives but here we are in old age and it does not do nice things to you,” Peter\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

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Dr Philip Nitschke is the creator of the controversial pods (David Mariuz\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Noting his wife’s\u00a0dementia<\/a>\u00a0diagnosis, he continued: “The idea of watching the slow degradation of Chris’s mental abilities in parallel to my own physical decline is horrific to me.<\/p>\n

“Obviously I would care for her to the point I could not, but she has nursed enough people with dementia during her career to be adamant she wants to remain in control of herself and her life.<\/p>\n

“Assisted dying gives her that opportunity and I would not want to go on living without her.”<\/p>\n

Adding to the controversy of the suicide pods, apparently those who chose to die by such means will have their deaths recorded on camera.<\/p>\n

The footage will then be handed to a coroner as a means of evidence of their death.<\/p>\n