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Nitschke Continues to "Perfect" Death Machine

Euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke presented his most recent suicide machine November 17 at a Sydney press conference.

Calling it the "CO Genie," named after the chemical formula for deadly carbon monoxide, the machine uses household items such as a jam jar combined with carbon monoxide to kill a person for about 52 Australian dollars ($37 US), according to Agence France-Presse.

"It's a simple device and they are getting simpler," Nitschke said at the press conference, news agency AAP reported. "We've got 200 people booked in for workshops across Australia where people want to come along and build this device."

Nitschke has made a career of trying to avoid police prosecution for euthanasia, attempting to use legal items in combinations that cause death. With the help of pro-euthanasia groups, he then holds workshops to teach suicidal people how to kill themselves.

"We will endeavour to ensure that the only people who come and take part in these workshops are people that have a good reason to, and this will be elderly Australians," Nitschke said, according to AAP. "But will the technology slip out? Look, it's not rocket science. Anyone who has done high school chemistry can build one of these machines."

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