Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Police in Switzerland made multiple arrests after someone reportedly ended their life using a so-called suicide pod, in apparently the first case of its kind. Police in the Schaffhausen region said they arrested ‘several persons’ on suspicion of inciting, and aiding and abetting suicide after someone died reportedly by using a pod made by the company Sarco on Monday. While assisted dying is legally protected in some circumstances in Switzerland, the Sarco pod has encountered some opposition. Officers recovered the device and body at the scene. The company behind the controversial pod says it can be solely operated by the person seeking to end their own life, without medical supervision. Police said it was used on Monday at a forest hut in the Merishausen area, a sparsely populated part of Switzerland on the German border.” [editor’s note: Talk about a truly “victimless crime;” the lady clearly wanted to go – SAT] (09/24/24)