An Australian right-to-die campaigner has vowed to bring a double-suicide pod to the UK after the bill to legalise assisted dying passed its final vote in the Commons. MPs voted on Friday by a ...

THE inventor of the controversial Sacro “suicide pod” has vowed to bring the death device to the UK – despite it facing scrutiny over the alleged murder of a woman. It comes ...

Florian Willet, 47, died by suicide months after a 64-year-old American woman died using the Sarco pod — a nitrogen-filled "suicide capsule" he helped oversee ARND WIEGMANN/AFP via Getty Florian ...

Florian Willet is pictured at a Zurich press conference on July 17, 2024 ...

While assisted dying is legally protected in some circumstances in Switzerland, it is strictly regulated, and the pod has encountered opposition. Advocates say the device - manufactured by Sarco - ...

A right-to-die activist who was arrested over the first reported use of a “suicide pod” has died by assisted suicide, according to the device’s inventor. Dr Florian Willet, 47, was arrested ...

Florian Willet was present when the Sarco suicide capsule was first used in Switzerland in September 2024 and had been placed in pre-trial detention.

She died in a Sarco pod in a forest near Merishausen, Switzerland, and was found inside with strangulation marks on her neck. Willet, 47, died last month but his death was only confirmed this week.

While innovation like the Sarco pod reflects technological and ethical advancements, it also urges us to ask deeper questions about how we support those in pain, physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Despite the strong emotions raised, the Sarco capsule is thus unlikely to spark a new assisted-suicide law in reform-wary Switzerland. MENAFN08022025000210011054ID1109183014 ...

The use of the suicide pod Sarco in the Netherlands would be “socially undesirable” and unlawful, junior social care minister Vicky Maijer (PVV) said this week, following MPs questions in a debate ...

Dr Philip Nitschke, inventor of Sarco's assisted-suicide pod, says he's 'very keen' to bring it to the UK - and even has an idea in mind for the ideal place to use it News Zahra Khaliq News Reporter ...