Several arrests were allegedly made on Monday after a 64-year-old American woman used a “suicide pod” to kill herself in northern Switzerland. The first-ever use of the Sarco pod took place “under a canopy of trees” near a woodland cabin in Merishausen,

The legality of using the 3D-printed device for its intended purpose of helping assisted dying is being questioned by authorities in Switzerland.

Police in the Schaffhausen canton said the device—a human-sized pod which fills with nitrogen to cause death by hypoxia—was used at a forest hut, after which multiple arrests were made. The Last Resort,