(24 Sep 2024)
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Rotterdam, Netherlands – 8 July 2024
1. Mid of the “suicide pot”, called the "Sarco” with Dr. Philip Nitschke lying in it and closing the lit
2. Various of Nitschke lying in Sarco
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Philip Nitschke, Australian-born trained doctor:
"There are some people who don’t approve of the idea of assisted suicide at all, they would never approve it. Now, often these people have religious convictions and they say, look, this is a matter only between you and God. Now, those beliefs are interesting and they are okay, I don’t mind those beliefs, but they’re not my beliefs, and they’re not the beliefs of many people who decide they want to control their deaths."
4. Various of Nitschke lying in Sarco
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Philip Nitschke, Australian-born trained doctor:
"People have been using the method of nitrogen for a while in the right to die movement, where people would use things which are not very attractive, like plastic bags, and they would try to use gas from a compressed cylinder to be able to end their lives. This makes it something which is much more elegant, much more stylish and beautiful."
6. Wide of Sarco with closed lid
STORYLINE:
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.”
The “Sarco” suicide capsule, which has never been used before, is designed to allow a person sitting in a reclining seat inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber. The person is then supposed to fall asleep and die by suffocation in a few minutes.
The Associated Press met with the inventors of the Sarco over the summer as the final preparations for it’s use were being carried out. Nitschke shared with the AP his reasoning and beliefs for his support of assisted suicide.
Prosecutors in Schaffhausen canton were informed by a law firm that an assisted suicide involving the Sarco had taken place Monday near a forest cabin in Merishausen, regional police said in a statement. It said “several people” were taken into custody and prosecutors opened an investigation on suspicion of incitement and accessory to suicide.
Dutch newspaper Volkskrant reported Tuesday that police had detained one of its photographers who wanted to take pictures of the use of the Sarco. It said Schaffhausen police had indicated the photographer was being held at a police station but declined to give a further explanation.
The newspaper declined to comment further when contacted by the AP.
Exit International, an assisted suicide group based in the Netherlands, has said it is behind the 3D-printed device that cost over $1 million to develop.
In a statement, the group said a 64-year-old woman from the U.S. Midwest — it did not specify further — who had suffered from “severe immune compromise” had died Monday afternoon near the German border using the Sarco device.
It said Florian Willet, co-president of The Last Resort, a Swiss affiliate of Exit International, was the only person present and described her death as “peaceful, fast and dignified.”
Dr. Philip Nitschke, an Australian-born trained doctor behind Exit International, has previously told the AP that his organization received advice from lawyers in Switzerland that use of the Sarco would be legal in the country.
Some lawmakers in Switzerland have argued that the law is unclear and have sought to close what they call legal loopholes.
AP Video by Ahmed Seir.
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