Sharlotte Hydorn, 91, California resident and purveyor of do-it-yourself suicide kits is in trouble with the Law. Apparently she has been selling plastic bags that plug into helium canisters, the kind used at children’s parties for blowing up balloons. Place bag over head, switch gas on and off you go. According to one reporter at the L.A Times she has a “neighborly demeanor that is disarming” and says that she just wants to “help people.” For only $60 you can purchase your “exit bag” and she feels she has done you a favor. Hydorn’s “exit bags” were found by the FBI ready for delivery to the sick and depressed. Discussion about the rights and…
Ann McPherson, Jack Kevorkian and a little old lady called Sharlotte, What is the Meaning of Death? Dignitas