Users enter the pod, lie down, and activate a mechanism that reduces oxygen levels and introduces nitrogen, leading to death by hypoxia. The Schaffhausen Police revealed that the Sarco pod was ...

The news broke last week that an American woman became the first-ever victim of the Sarco pod — a ghastly device that ...

Sanitizing suicide doesn't make it better. Simplifying the worst human impulses only moves society in the wrong direction.

A 64-year-old American woman becomes the first person to die using the controversial Sarco suicide pod in Switzerland.

Police in northern Switzerland say several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the ...

A controversial 'suicide capsule' was reportedly used for the first time in Switzerland by an American woman from the Midwest ...

The Swiss police said they had detained “several individuals” after a 64-year-old American woman reportedly died by suicide ...

Following the death of an American woman in a so-called suicide capsule in Switzerland and the arrest of several people ...

Warning: This story contains sensitive content The death of an American woman in an assisted suicide capsule has led to ...

This photograph shows a view of the Sarco assisted suicide capsule, during a press conference organised by the “Last Resort”, ...

Dr Philip Nitschke's earlier device from the 1990s, the Deliverance Machine, gave people control over their own lethal dose.

The capsule was invented by Dr. Philip Nitschke, a proponent for assisted suicide who is nicknamed “Dr. Death." ...