Commentary Just what the world didn’t need—a suicide machine that promises to make users die pleasurably in just 30 seconds. Ready or not, it’s here. The “Sarco Suicide Pod” has been approved for use in Switzerland, a country that already accommodates “suicide tourism,” that is, for-pay clinics that people attend from around the world to be made dead. The Swiss blessing of the life-extinguishing machine—the invention of the Australian suicide proselytizer, Philip Nitschke (more about whom below)—received ubiquitous, and mostly non-critical, international media coverage. For example, Yahoo News described the device as a “3-D-printed portable coffin-like capsule with windows that can be transported to a tranquil place for a person’s final moments of life.” Other than listing the phone number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline—1-800-273-8255—no critics were quoted in the story nor were the many pronounced dangers to suicidal people in making self-termination seem desirable, described. Ditto, the story …