A newspaper photographer has been arrested for taking pictures of the first person to use the Sarco suicide pod — which allows an individual to take their own life in a few minutes.
The “Sarco” capsule — which is designed by an assisted suicide group in the Netherlands called Exit International — is built for a person inside to press a button that releases nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber.
This device, which has never been used previously, causes the individual to lose consciousness and pass away from oxygen deprivation within a few minutes.
On Monday, a 64-year-old woman — who is believed to be from the U.S. — became the first person to use the Sarco suicide pod.
The Sarco capsule was set up in a woodland close to a forest cabin in Merishausen, northern Switzerland, with the pod’s …