‘We saw jerky twitches of the muscles’: Dr Philip Nitschke on the first death inside his euthanasia pod

Swiss police arrested several people after the reported death of a 64-year-old woman using the Sarco.
Philip Nitschke inside ‘The Sarco’ in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 2024. Photo: AAP.

Dr Philip Nitschke’s controversial suicide pod — dubbed the Tesla of euthanasia — has reportedly been used for the first time, triggering several arrests by police.

The arrests followed reports that a 64-year-old woman used the Sarco (short for sarcophagus) in a remote forest in the north of Switzerland.