Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide since 1942 but the first death with the Sarco suicide pod has raised questions.

As a police investigation is launched into the use of the controversial assisted suicide capsule Sarco, we examine whether ...

Dr Philip Nitschke has vowed to print a new machine - made using a 3D printer - to use in a country other than Switzerland, where prosecutors seized the original pod in September.

Swiss authorities detained Florian Willet, co-founder of The Last Resort, after a woman's death in a Sarco capsule.

Join us on Saturdays for deeper dives from our bureaus across Europe. ZURICH — For decades, Switzerland has been a place where people could find relatively uncomplicated ways to end their own ...

Several people were arrested after the 64-year-old woman became the first person to use the device in September.

Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide ... A photo of the Sarco suicide capsule taken at a media event in July 2024. Questions have been raised after a woman died after using the device.

The mother-of-two, who said she had wished to die for 'at least two years' while suffering with a 'very serious illness involving severe pain', reportedly closed the lid of the pod without hesitation.

THE first woman to die inside the banned “suicide pod” was allegedly found with strangulation marks on her neck, according to a prosecutor. The anonymous woman, 64 and ...

There are reports that the 64-year-old American woman who used the Sarco ‘suicide pod’ in Switzerland was found with ...

First person to use Sarco suicide pod, 64, was 'found with strangulation marks': Boss still in custody over US woman's death in Swiss woodland https://t.co/EUHakLiAVT pic.twitter.com/8KLqwfEFot — ...