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 ...

The American woman who became the first person to take her own life in the new "suicide pod" in Switzerland was given a chilling command by the morbid machine before she took her last breaths.

The first person to use the Sarco suicide pod 'lost consciousness within two minutes', its creator Dr Philip Nitschke said.

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.

Police in Switzerland detained "several" people following the first use of the Sarco suicide pod, which was reportedly used to kill an American woman "under a canopy of trees" in the country.

The device was used on the same day as Swiss Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider told the National Council that she considers the use of the Sarco in Switzerland to be illegal.

The "Sarco" capsule is designed to allow a person sitting inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber.

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.

We said that if they came to Schaffhausen and used Sarco, they would face criminal consequences,” Peter Sticher, a prosecutor in Schaffhausen, the region of Switzerland where the device was used ...

A Sarco assisted-suicide pod has been used for the first time in Switzerland by a woman who died "under a canopy of trees" - prompting police to arrest staff. A 64-year-old American woman is ...

The Sarco device romanticizes its victim’s death by whitewashing what is actually happening when someone steps into the capsule and presses the button.

The woman had reportedly traveled to Switzerland specifically for the procedure. The Last Resort confirmed that a 64-year old woman from the mid-west had died using the Sarco device.