The Sarco suicide pod has been used for the first time, its creators have confirmed, with an American woman aged 64 believed to be the first person to have died in the device 'under a canopy of ...

Sarco ‘suicide pod’ gave chilling command before American woman took her own life By . ... The device, used by the Last Resort assisted-suicide group, kills a person with nitrogen gas.

It said a statement: "On Monday 23 September, at approximately 16.01 CEST, a 64-year old woman from the the mid-west in the USA died using the Sarco device." Article continues below ...

Police in northern Switzerland said Tuesday that several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a "suicide capsule." The "Sarco ...

The first fully-functional Sarco device is set to be built later this year in the Netherlands, before being shipped to Switzerland where assisted suicide is legal. Dr Nitschke plans to develop a ...

The "Sarco" capsule, which has never been used before, ... who had suffered from "severe immune compromise" had died Monday afternoon near the German border using the Sarco device. ...

The inventor of the controversial ‘Sarco’ suicide pod has vowed to bring it to Britain, after the bill to legalise assisted dying passed its final vote. History was made yesterday in the Commons as a ...

The Last Resort, an assisted dying group which presented the Sarco device in Zurich in July, told the AFP that the woman who died was a 64-year-old from the midwestern United States. She was not ...

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 Sarco device, short for sarcophagus, is a sealed capsule which enables the person inside to press a button that rapidly replaces the oxygen inside the pod with nitrogen gas, resulting in death ...

The Swiss police said they had detained “several individuals” after a 64-year-old American woman reportedly died by suicide using the controversial device. By Ali Watkins The authorities in ...