Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, but authorities said gas used in the capsule doesn't meet safety requirements.

The "Sarco" capsule is designed to allow a person sitting inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed ...

A witness who watched the first person die in the controversial suicide pod has revealed exactly what happened. The Sarco ...

Criminal proceedings have been launched against “several people for incitement and aiding and abetting suicide,” police said.

Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to ...

Multiple people were detained and a criminal case has been opened in northern Switzerland after a person died by assisted ...

Police in northern Switzerland said Tuesday that several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection ...

The “Sarco” suicide capsule, which has never been used before, is designed to allow a person sitting in a reclining seat ...

A criminal investigation has been opened after prosecutors in Schaffhausen were informed by a law firm that an “assisted ...

The person is then supposed to fall asleep and die by suffocation in a few minutes. Prosecutors in Schaffhausen canton were informed by a law firm that an “assisted suicide” involving the Sarco had ...

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Several people have been detained following the use of a "suicide capsule," police in northern Switzerland said.