Criminal case opened after Sarco capsule – which releases nitrogen gas at the touch of a button – used in Merishausen

Swiss police say they have opened a criminal investigation and arrested several people after the suspected death of a woman in a so-called suicide capsule.

According to local reports, the capsule, named the Sarco Pod by its inventor, was used for the first time on Monday afternoon in a forest close to the German border in the Swiss town of Merishausen.

The person who died was reportedly a 64-year-old American woman. Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where assisted suicide is legal, under certain conditions.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Painless death needs to be attainable, society needs to become a place where people aren’t beaten down to the point of wanting to escape life as a way of escaping society, and we somehow impossibly need to have the painless suicide methods not get used for the million horrible things they’ll totally be used for.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      1 month ago

      amen. im good for the moment but im over 50 and I have seen some things with folks in the decade ahead. If it get to bad I don’t want to suffer. The time aspect of our timespace goes for like 70 years and yeah some will go for a decade or so longer and the rare few maybe 3 decades but rarer still is those where those decades are enjoyable.