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The Sarco is an expansion of the hypoxic death provided by a suicide bag. Many people will not consider euthanasia by suicide bag for aesthetic reasons, or may feel claustrophobic inside a bag. Nitschke calls this the "plastic bag factor". [6] The Sarco was developed to address these objections.
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.
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 said that nitrogen is "undetectable even by autopsy, which was important to some people". [41] Nitschke produced a 3D printed pod, "Sarco", that fills with nitrogen at the push of a button, claiming to cause its user to become unconscious within a minute and then die of oxygen deprivation. [42] [43]
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