Switzerland: 64-year-old American woman the first to use the suicide chamber [Video]

A 64-year-old US woman is reportedly the first person to use the suicide chamber in Switzerland.

According to the capsule’s creator, Philip Nietzsche who has been nicknamed “Dr Death”, the woman entered the chamber and “almost immediately pressed the button” to end her life.

He had previously described that anyone who enters the chamber and presses the button releases nitrogen gas which causes hypoxia and eventually death. It takes a total of ten minutes to complete the gruesome process with the final phrase heard being “If you want to die, press this button.”

The chamber was set in a wooded area in northern Switzerland so the American woman could see the trees and the sky in her final moments.

“Everything happened as we expected. I believe she lost consciousness two minutes after the procedure started and finally died after five minutes,” Nietzsche told Dutch media. Describing what happened, he added …