[ExI] news: "Australian Man Uses Robot to Commit Suicide"

[Damien Broderick]

At 11:28 AM 3/23/2008 +1100, Stathis wrote:

> > An 81-year-old Australian man used a do-it-yourself robotic "suicide booth"
> > to kill himself yesterday.
>
>I don't see the advantage over pulling the trigger himself.

Well, he gets to violate the first of Asimov's unbreakable Laws of 
Robotics, which must provide a degree of grim satisfaction as one departs...

Damien Broderick