Die Pod™ cares for your safety.

This is ironic – a suicide device that has a safety feature, a get-out clause. Continuing exploring the commodification of suicide, I felt that in developing this technology, the company ‘Die Pod International™ would also want to leave every option open to potential clients. If they’ve already supplied a comfortable, secure, sophisticated environment in which to ends one’s life; they surely wouldn’t have over-looked some safety features to reassure clients. Perhaps the panic button’s very availability would be responsible for aborted suicides and the continuation of life for a great many people.

Frequently, suicide is a cry for help; a last desperate attempt to bring great personal, internal crises to the attention of society.

Die Pod International™

I wasn’t personally thinking about suicide, but I was thinking about it’s place in contemporary western society and came to the conclusion that it still is, very much a taboo. I find it interesting that so may things are commodified these days, including the privilege of fertility science and (increasingly) our ability (for some) to chose pre-destined birth patterns for potential children- the opposite holds true with the denial of life.

I’m thinking about the idea of commodifying suicide for the iPod generation; technology driven suicide which is as easy as pressing a button, or swiping a screen. If the science of fertility is developing year on year, then on balance, it’s reasonable to see technology developing ways to die.

I am not advocating, nor do I encourage any forms of suicide. This tragic act is a painful reality for millions of survivors and relatives around the globe each year; I am just exploring it’s concept in relation to technology and the future.