Ezra Klein writes:
But it's expensive. With only Switzerland in the market, there's little
competition. And in addition to the 4,000 euros required for the
services of Dignitas, you also have to pay for your flight, and for
those of your loved ones.
Well, sort of. But if you already have $4,000, or can borrow $4,000 (don't tell them why you want the money), ex post it's actually not as expensive as it looks. Which may help explain why the demand is somewhat inelastic.
$4000 spent is $4000 less to leave for your loved ones. Does the same apply to $4000 borrowed? I don’t know how the law deals with debts upon death.
you’d save on the one-way airfare.
I hear it’s a great service. None of their customers have come back to complain.
4000E, expensive, a luxury for the rich. That’s the problem? Switzerland screwing the poor on their final purchase? Would I be the first to say OMFG on MR?
The rich do this because they plan past happy hour.
Best post (and comments) I’ve read this week.
I guess I wasn’t too civil in my first comments.
But come on, can anything at all be expected of the unproductive anymore?
Can’t they even buy their own handgun (while still legal) and do it in the bathtub if they want to be thoughtful about it?
I mean, we have progressed past debtors prisons for the poor…oh wait…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090716/ap_on_re_us/us_wrongfully_jailed
Do they sell gift cards?
What, a bottle of Tylenol PM isn’t chic enough for some people?
Taking any kind of pills is a terrible way to commit suicide. It rarely works and when it doesn’t it causes lots of unpleasantness.
The best is probably to jump off a sufficiently high building or bridge. It’s something like 99% effective. The Golden Gate is a popular choice, I hear.
A tank of helium attached to a scuba mask is painless, cheap, effective, non-disfiguring, and so long as you don’t try to talk to anyone while you are dying, dignified.
[..] and so long as you don’t try to talk to anyone while you are dying, dignified.
Okay, that was the best comment I’ve read this week.
What is wrong with suicide by cop?
For at least a hundred million Americans, a gun is readily at hand, so loading up and going into a public place where police are quick at hand and starting shooting should do the trick.
And a lot of Americans blame someone for their problems, liberals typically, so shooting liberals would make suicide have a purpose.
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