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It’s inexpensive, easy to use, portable and efficient. It’s also deadly.

A device an Australian doctor says enables people to kill themselves quickly and painlessly is on track for development even though the prototype model has been confiscated.

At a pro-euthanasia conference Sunday in San Diego, Dr. Philip Nitschke said he and U.S. supporters intend to build another suicide machine in the United States to replace one seized by Australian customs agents Thursday.

Nitschke, 55, said customs officers in Sydney confiscated his COGen machine, which allows users to inhale pure carbon monoxide, as he prepared to leave for San Diego to unveil the device before a national meeting of the Hemlock Society.