Florian Willet, 47, died by suicide months after a 64-year-old American woman died using the Sarco pod — a nitrogen-filled "suicide capsule" he helped oversee ...

The right-to-die activist behind a new “suicide capsule” says he rejects “absurd” allegations that the U.S. woman who was said to be its first user may have actually been strangled.

The emergence of the Sarco capsule, which has been criticized even by staunch advocates of the right-to-die movement, has challenged Switzerland’s stance on the subject. In an address before ...

The use of the Sarco suicide capsule, dubbed the “Tesla of euthanasia,” has been suspended just weeks after an American woman ended her life in the controversial morbid machine. The Sar… ...

The Sarco capsule is designed to fill itself with Nitrogen gas, putting victims to sleep before suffocating them within 10 minutes of activation. It is 3-D printed and was first unveiled at the ...

Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to commit suicide was used for the first time, authorities said on Tuesday.

Sarco suicide pod is used for the first time as US woman, 64, uses the capsule to die in Swiss woodland - prompting police to swoop and detain staff ...

ZURICH − Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to die by suicide was used for the first time, authorities said ...

The "Sarco" capsule, which has never been used before, is presumably designed to allow a person sitting in a reclining seat inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber.

The capsule is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas. Daily Mail. A look at Sarco suicide pod as capsule is used for first time.

The impetus for the Sarco capsule came from the plight of Tony Nicklinson, a UK resident who suffered from locked-in syndrome. In 2012, Tony’s legal team approached Dr Philip Nitschke, ...

The inventor of the controversial ‘Sarco’ suicide pod has vowed to bring it to Britain, after the bill to legalise assisted ...