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.

Phillip Nitschke, the Sarco's architect, added to the earlier statement by Willet claiming his device "had performed exactly as it had been designed to do,' saying it had provided a 'non-drug ...

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

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 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.

This photograph shows the Sarco suicide capsule, during a media event organized by the "Last Resort," a Switzerland's human rights nonprofit association focused on assisted suicide, in Zurich on ...

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 ...

Mr. Willet, who was 47, according to the obituary, was the only person with the American woman when she died using the Sarco device in a remote forest in Switzerland in September.