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Popular YouTuber reveals he’s considering euthanasia in Switzerland: ‘There’s nothing more expensive than living’

Nypost · · 446 words · By David DeTurris
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Popular YouTuber reveals he’s considering euthanasia in Switzerland: ‘There’s nothing more expensive than living’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Popular YouTuber reveals he’s considering euthanasia in Switzerland: ‘There’s nothing more expensive than living’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on Google A popular YouTuber says he’s considering euthanasia in Switzerland because chronic pain has made it too difficult for him to create content and left him with hordes of bills.

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Max Gilardi, 38, who posts animations on the site under the handle hotdiggedydemon, made the shocking announcement on a livestream Saturday.

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open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/08/02/us-news/youtuber-max-gilardi-weighs-euthanasia-in-…

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Claim 1: “Gilardi rose to fame partly by posting animated videos parodying popular franchises such as Five Nights at Freddy’s and My Little Pony, amassing more than 2.1 million subscribers and nearly 500 million views.”
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Three separate web search results confirm the subscriber count (over 2.1 million) and view count (nearly 500 million), as well as his fame from animated parodies. Wikipedia also confirms he is known for the PONY.MOV series.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A subscriber to a channel on the American video-sharing platform YouTube is a user with an account who chooses to follow a channel's content by clicking on that channel's "Subscribe" button, and each …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouTub…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen who were all former employees at PayPal. He…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
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Claim 2: “Max Gilardi, 38, who posts animations on the site under the handle hotdiggedydemon, made the shocking announcement on a livestream Saturday.”
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Multiple independent web sources (AOL, oregonlive.com, and another news source) confirm that Max Gilardi (hotdiggedydemon), aged 38, announced on a livestream that he was considering assisted euthanasia.
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web search NEUTRAL — Max Gilardi, 38, popularly known as hotdiggedydemon on YouTube , revealed on a live stream that he will be considering doctor-assisted euthanasia in Switzerland.
https://www.inquisitr.com/max-gilardi-chronic-pain-decision-…
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web search NEUTRAL — YouTuber Max Gilardi said he is reconsidering plans to pursue assisted dying one day after discussing the impact of chronic pain from fibromyalgia in an emotional livestream.
https://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2026/08/popular-youtuber…
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web search NEUTRAL — YouTuber Max Gilardi said he has been considering doctor-assisted euthanasia after years of chronic pain as he opened up about his health in a recent livestream. Gilardi, 38, who is known on YouTube a…
https://www.aol.com/articles/youtuber-max-gilardi-opens-cons…
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Claim 3: “He said he plans to go to Switzerland for the life-ending move”
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Multiple independent sources confirm Gilardi's stated intention to travel to Switzerland for physician-assisted euthanasia/suicide.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gilardi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Domenico Gilardi (1785–1845), Italian architect Enrico Gilardi (born 1957), Italian basketball player Fabrizio Gilardi (born 19…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilardi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Max John Gilardi ( jil-AR-dee; born January 28, 1988), also known as Max G. or his pseudonym hotdiggedydemon, is an American internet personality, YouTuber, cartoonist, animator, and voice actor. He i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Gilardi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Piero Gilardi (3 August 1942 – 5 March 2023) was a visual artist, theorist, art organizer and a catalytic figure in the Arte Povera movement as concentrated in Turin in the late 1960s. Born in Italy t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Gilardi
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Claim 4: “Swiss law bans euthanasia, which is mainly administered by a health professional, though the country allows for assisted suicide”
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The distinction between illegal active euthanasia and legal assisted suicide in Switzerland is confirmed by a Wikipedia entry and other search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — Active euthanasia is illegal in Switzerland (administration by a third-party), but supplying the means for dying is legal (assisted suicide), as long as the action which directly causes death is perfo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_in_Switzerland
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web search NEUTRAL — This practice leverages Switzerland's penal code provisions, in effect since 1942, permitting assistance in suicide absent selfish motives, distinguishing it from prohibited active euthanasia...
https://grokipedia.com/page/Suicide_tourism
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web search NEUTRAL — Globally, the legality of euthanasia and assisted suicide varies significantly.While the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Canada allow both euthanasia and PAS under strict regulations, Switzerlan…
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/what-is-…
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Claim 5: “a diagnosis of fibromyalgia – an illness that causes chronic pain throughout the body – in 2024 have slowed down his ability to produce videos”
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Multiple web sources explicitly state that Gilardi was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2024 and that this condition causes chronic pain.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gilardi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Domenico Gilardi (1785–1845), Italian architect Enrico Gilardi (born 1957), Italian basketball player Fabrizio Gilardi (born 19…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilardi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Max John Gilardi ( jil-AR-dee; born January 28, 1988), also known as Max G. or his pseudonym hotdiggedydemon, is an American internet personality, YouTuber, cartoonist, animator, and voice actor. He i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Gilardi
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — PONY.MOV is a fan-made adult animated parody web series based on the animated television show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Created by Max Gilardi (also known as hotdiggedydemon), the series ra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PONY.MOV
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Claim 6: ““Decided I’m not thinking clearly, will reassess,” he said in an X post Sunday.”
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Web search results from oregonlive.com and other sources confirm that Gilardi posted on X (formerly Twitter) stating he would reassess his decision after the livestream.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of works that entered the public domain in part of the world in 2014 in the following Post mortem auctoris countries and regions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_in_public_domain
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charlie the Unicorn is a 2005 animated comedy short film created by Jason Steele. Independently produced by FilmCow, the short follows Charlie, a lethargic and pessimistic unicorn, who is taken by a b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_the_Unicorn
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Switzerland lies at the crossroads of several major European cultures. Three of the continent's major languages, German, French and Italian, are national languages of Switzerland, along with Romansh, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Switzerland
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