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The capsule of Sarco provides for a rapid decrease in oxygen level while maintaining a low level of carbon dioxide. On activation, 4 litres (1.1 US gal) of liquid nitrogen causes the oxygen level to drop silently to less than 5% in less than one minute. According to Nitschke: "The occupant presses the button and the capsule is filled with nitrogen.
The doctor who created the Sarco “suicide pod” has said he will bring his creation to the UK if assisted dying is made legal. Dr Philip Nitschke said he is ready to launch the pod, should ...
Philip Haig Nitschke [1] (/ ˈ n ɪ tʃ k ɪ /; born 8 August 1947) is an Australian humanist, author, former physician, and founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International. He campaigned successfully to have a legal euthanasia law passed in Australia's Northern Territory and assisted four people in ending their lives before ...
Image of Sarco, by Philip Nitschke In 2017, Nitschke invented the 3D-printed suicide capsule, which he named "the Sarco". [ 16 ] The Sarco would contain a touchpad and nitrogen, and once an activation code is entered, "the person is again asked if they wish to die". [ 16 ]
Warning: This story contains sensitive content The death of an American woman in an assisted suicide capsule has led to criminal proceedings being launched against several people in Switzerland.
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Exit International was founded by Philip Nitschke in 1997 after the over-turning of the world's first Voluntary Euthanasia law—the Rights of the Terminally Ill (ROTI) Act enacted in the Northern Territory, Australia. During the ROTI Act, Nitschke became the first physician in the world to administer a legal, lethal, voluntary injection. [2]
Nitschke's organisation sells suicide kits that contain nitrogen tanks and regulators. [19] He promotes the use of nitrogen and suicide bags with lectures and films, such as Doing it with Betty – in which an elderly woman describes how to make a plastic 'exit' bag, [20] [21] and with published materials such as workshop handbooks. [22]