High-tech assisted suicide pod may be legal in Switzerland as soon as next year

The Sarco assisted euthanasia pod first started making waves around 2017. Created by Dutch doctor Philip Nitschke of Exit International, it's a coffin-like pod that's meant to help deliver people to the end of their lives without pain. Once an individual has entered the pod, they are presented with a series of questions; eventually, they are given control of a button which, once pressed, slowly releases nitrogen into the pod and reducing the oxygen level until death occurs by hypoxia and hypocapnia. — Read the rest