The emergence of the Sarco capsule, which has been criticized even by staunch advocates of the right-to-die movement, has challenged Switzerland’s stance on the subject. In an address before ...

Police in northern Switzerland said Tuesday that several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a "suicide capsule." The "Sarco ...

This photograph shows the Sarco suicide capsule, during a media event organized by the "Last Resort," a Switzerland's human rights nonprofit association focused on assisted suicide, in Zurich on ...

Police in Switzerland are investigating the alleged use of a suicide capsule to kill multiple people, including a 64-year-old woman who was an American citizen.

Multiple people were detained and a criminal case has been opened in northern Switzerland after a person died by assisted suicide Monday, according to police in the town of Schaffhausen. "Several ...

An elderly man in a retirement home in Birmingham, UK. Dozens of Scots have traveled to Switzerland for an assisted death because current laws prevent the end-of-life option in Scotland, May 8, 2017.

Advocacy groups behind a "suicide capsule" said they have suspended applications ... A 64-year-old American woman became the first person to use the device to voluntarily end her life in Switzerland.

Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule said Sunday they have suspended the process of taking applications to use it — which numbered over 370 last month — as a criminal ...

The right-to-die activist behind a new “suicide capsule” says he rejects “absurd” allegations that the U.S. woman who was said to be its first user may have actually been strangled.

Police in northern Switzerland said Tuesday that several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a new “suicide capsule.” ...

In Switzerland on Monday, a 64-year-old woman died in a specially designed ‘suicide capsule’ containing nitrogen gas. It is the first time ever that this suicide capsule, called the Sarco, was used.