Several people have been arrested in Switzerland after the so-called Sarco 'suicide pod' was used yesterday in the northern Schaffhausen canton.

A 64-year-old American woman is believed to have become the first person to die in the device which allows the occupant to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber

The 'Sarco' suicide capsule, which has never been used before, is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber.

Swiss police arrest several people after the controversial pod is used for the first time.

GENEVA: Swiss police announced Tuesday that several people were taken into custody after the controversial Sarco suicide pod was used to end a woman’s...

The pod lets a person take their own life in a few minutes.

GENEVA: Swiss police said on Tuesday (Sep 24) they arrested several people after a US woman used a controversial suicide pod to end her life. The space-age looking Sarco capsule, which replaces the oxygen inside it with nitrogen, causing death by hypoxia, was used on Monday at a forest location near t