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 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 ...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this report incorrectly reported that Switzerland had formally approved the pod. A new way to die by assisted suicide could soon be available in Switzerland ...

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.

T he prosecutors in Switzerland took a landmark decision of banning a 'death capsule' which has been designed for carrying out assisted suicides before it was about to be used for the first time.

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.