Dr Fiona Stewart, a lawyer on the board of Last Resort, exhibits the organisation’s ‘Sarco’ pod in July - Arnd Wiegmann/AFP via Getty An American woman has become the first person to die through the ...

Fiona Stewart from Last Resort, Switzerland’s non-profit association focused on assisted suicide, presents the Sarco capsule in Zurich - ARND WIEGMANN/AFP The doctor behind the so-called Sarco “death ...

Dr Philip Nitschke, known as 'Dr Death', has created a Kairos Kollar suicide collar as his latest assisted dying device ...

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland (WKRC) - Police said they arrested multiple people on suspicion of aiding the suicide of someone who allegedly willingly chose to use an "assisted suicide pod." Police said ...

The Sarco suicide pod is now surrounded by even more controversy after the first person to use it was found with strangulation marks around her neck. Dr Florian Willet, the co-president of Swiss Sarco ...

Multiple people have been arrested in Switzerland in connection to the seemingly willing use of a "suicide capsule." Police officials of Schaffhausen canton in northern Switzerland announced on ...

A secluded forest near Merishausen, Switzerland, became the center of controversy when a so-called “suicide capsule” claimed its first life under deeply questionable circumstances. The death of an ...

Cue the controversy, because Switzerland is about to test the world’s first portable “suicide pod.” Known as Sarco, its sleek design is meant to take away from some of the uneasiness around assisted ...

Assisted suicide services are controversial, but some countries approve of such life-ending services for certain patients. Switzerland is among the countries that allow terminally ill patients to ...

A portable capsule designed for use in assisted suicide has been authorized by Switzerland's medical review board and could be available within the year, according to a local Swiss news outlet. The ...

People who use the Sarco suicide pod will hear a hair-raising eight-word message before they press a button to end their own life. The capsule is designed to allow the person inside to push a button ...

Dr. Philip Nitschke, the man behind the Sarco capsule, claims that the pods have passed a “legal review” and will be available for use in Switzerland in 2022. But details of the “legal review” have ...