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furoya

sarco
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1º_ It is a lexical component of Greek origin that is used more as a prefix sarco- or sarc- and means "meat". See medico/sarco prefix . 2º_ It is the name given to a tool created by the physicist Philip Nitshke for 'assisted suicide', a variant of euthanasia by which a person decides to end his life voluntarily and without the intervention of medical professionals. This machine is a box like a coffin or sarcophagus (probably hence the name) that is filled with nitrogen with the suicide inside, who dies in less than 10 minutes from hypoxia and hypocapnia.

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