Arrests made after 'suicide pod' used for first time by US woman
After entering the Sarco suicide pod on Monday, the machine allegedly asked the 64-year-old woman, who has not been publicly named, to press the button that would euthanize.The process knocks out the individual, with death occurring within 10 minutes. The pod comes with an emergency exit button.
Florian Willet, the co-president of assisted-suicide group Exit International’s Swiss affiliate, the Last Resort, was the only witness to the woman’s death, which he described as “peaceful, fast and dignified,” the organization said.Exit International director Dr. Philip Nitschke said Tuesday he was “pleased that the Sarco had performed exactly as it had been designed… to provide an elective, non-drug, peaceful death at the time of the person’s choosing.
While signs pointed to the Sarco pod being approved in the country, Swiss Health Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider suggested Monday that the capsule would not gain legal status.
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