Tag: Sarco

• Tuesday, September 24th 2024 - 15:50 UTC

  Use of unauthorized suicide capsule sparks controversy in Switzerland

  

  Authorities in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen arrested a group of people Tuesday in connection with the first-time unsanctioned use of the assisted suicide capsule known as Sarco, with which a 64-year-old American woman took her own life. Although assisted suicide is permitted in the country under certain conditions, prosecutors fear that these requirements had not been met.