Show sample for 9/25/24: THANATORIUM – FLYING THE SUICIDE SAUCER W/ PAULA SWOPE

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Clyde Lewis

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🗓️ 26 September 2024

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The story of Soylent Green is not just about mass cannibalism being hidden from the public but the way the older generations decide to voluntarily end their lives by going to what is called a Thanatorium. It literally was an assisted suicide center. No one dreamed that less than 40 years after the dystopian cinematic classic was released, assisted suicide clinics, exactly like the one depicted in the movie, would legally operate in Switzerland and service hundreds of people from around the world. The controversial SARCO suicide capsule looks like a compact spaceship that you get into, press a button, nitrogen fills up and you fall asleep and die. Is this a humane way to assist those who wish to depart peacefully from this physical realm or will it be used as a depopulation tool? Tonight on Ground Zero (7-10 pm, pacific time) Clyde Lewis talks with Paula Swope about THANATORIUM – FLYING THE SUICIDE SAUCER. Listen Live: https://groundzero.radio Archived Shows: https://aftermath.media

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0:00.0	I'm Clyde Lewis and you're about to listen to a sample of today's Ground Zero show.
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0:07.9	media.
0:08.6	I'm Clyde Lewis.
0:11.7	And this... I'm Clyde Lewis and this is Brown Zero.
0:17.0	The numbers to call tonight, 503 225. 0860.
0:26.6	That's 503 2250860.
0:29.7	So after our discussion last night about quantum immortality got my mind into a science fiction
0:37.7	mode, right?
0:40.3	So, you know, thumbing through the TV cue, wondering what to watch, and there was like West
0:46.4	World, which is the Michael Crichton film, Westworld is basically the precursor to Jurassic Park actually,
0:58.0	by a park of robotic, you know, people going nuts nuts and then there was Logan's run where
1:07.1	carousel you're vaporized when you reach a certain age a little button goes off on
1:11.3	your hand and you, yeah.
1:14.0	And so, you know, when you're watching old science fiction, and, you know,
1:18.0	I'm not talking about the 50s because the 50s was fun, you know, little Ray guns and the whole thing. You get a little cynical and you become
1:27.7	sometimes I see myself as a cynical futurist. I'm not necessarily, what's the word, not a fatalist or any, I mean literally, I mean I talk about
1:37.6	fatalistic things sometimes, but I'm just saying that I'm a short time pessimist, long time optimist, or either or, right? And so I'm just thinking,
1:50.9	you know, what is the future going to be like I mean we're every day you know we slowly slowly
1:54.4	slowly move towards this dystopian nightmare that we you seem to be living in And so I don't know. I know a lot of people will say, well, we're
2:07.2	going to end up
2:18.4	something worse so many different dystopian ways we can live.
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