A 64-year-old American woman is believed to have become the first person to die in the device which allows the occupant to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber

Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to commit suicide was used for the first time, authorities said on Tuesday.

Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to commit suicide was used for the first time, authorities said on Tuesday. Police in the northern canton of Schaffhausen bordering Germany said the so-called "Sarco" capsule had been deployed in a wood in the municipality of Merishausen on Monday.

Police in the Schaffhausen region said they arrested "several persons" on suspicion of inciting, and aiding and abetting suicide after someone died reportedly by using a Sarco-made pod on Monday. While assisted dying is legally protected in some circumstances in Switzerland,

Swiss authorities have arrested several people and opened a criminal investigation after a 64-year-old American woman reportedly used a so-called “suicide pod” to end her life, according to local reports.

Several arrests were allegedly made on Monday after a 64-year-old American woman used a “suicide pod” to kill herself in northern Switzerland. The first-ever use of the Sarco pod took place “under a canopy of trees” near a woodland cabin in Merishausen,

A 64-year-old US woman this week became the first person to end her life using the controversial ‘suicide pod’ in Switzerland.

This story includes discussion of assisted suicide. Several people in northern Switzerland have been arrested following a suspected death inside a "suicide pod" dubbed Sarco. As the Associated Press reports,