Comment by sarchertech

There’s no process to pick people that will reliably follow through with a suicide pact.

You could automate the process or compartmentalize it enough so that no one knows they are essentially committing suicide. But in that case you are removing human reason from the loop and your system will be too sensitive.

Essentially you have an automated deadman’s switch. Either you tune it to be too sensitive and the thing goes off because you went out of contact for a few hours—likely resulting in your own death.

Or you tune it to be not sensitive enough and your attacker takes advantage of the delay to take control of or destroy the system.