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.
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.