One of my favorite pieces of art is the assisted suicide machine at MONA in Hobart.

It’s disturbing, fascinating, repellent—and outside of an art gallery, deadly. A black box and a laptop sitting on a table forms the Philip Nitschke-designed suicide set-up he called ‘Deliverance’. It’s an old-school laptop hooked up to a case containing a lethal barbiturate cocktail. At MONA, you can undergo the process of administering it to yourself, though without the needle in the arm, of course. A series of instructions appear on the screen, and you must click to acknowledge that you understand and agree to these as you ready yourself for the administering of the drug. The process begins with the words ‘In 15 seconds you will be given a lethal injection’ and ends several minutes later with the words the genuine users of the machine are never meant to see: ‘You are now dead.’