‘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.
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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.