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December 29, 2024

Never before has there been so much public focus on self-determination

NRC

Suicide capsule ‘Sarco’, Middel X – ‘Never before has there been so much public focus on self-determination around death as now’ Jos van Wijk never minced words: one’s own dying, the 70-year-old believes, is a private matter. No one else needs to interfere with that. Van Wijk made his conviction his work; until 2023, he […]

December 21, 2024

Thing of 2024 – No one held her hand tight

NRC

The capsule is built from glossy panels and Plexiglas. You lie in it, tilted back like the pilot of a glider. It looks like a bobsled. Or the aerodynamic sidecar of a motorbike. In the Haarlem workshop where Philip Nitschke (77), an Australian doctor, worked for years on the prototype of the Sarco, there is […]

December 20, 2024

Everyone has the right to die, believes the inventor of the Sarco

Trouw

Everyone has the right to die, believes the inventor of the suicide capsule. ‘There is nothing wrong with what I am doing’ Philip Nitschke worked on his suicide capsule, the Sarco, for ten years. Its first use led to a criminal investigation. Nevertheless, he continues. ‘You don’t have to be a doctor to understand death.’ […]

December 19, 2024

Rijksmuseum Boerhaave to include suicide capsule in collection

Trouw

The Sarco, the suicide capsule first used in September, will enter the collection of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden reports Susan Wichgers Usually, the national Dutch museum of  the history of science and medicine, the Boerhaave, collects objects that have already made their mark, says collections manager Christel Schollaardt. The early respirator the iron lung, for […]

November 20, 2024

It seems as if Switzerland has suddenly become afraid of its pioneering role

NZZ Zurich

It seems as if Switzerland has suddenly become afraid of its pioneering role worldwide,’ says Nitschke, the inventor of Sarco. For the first time, Philip Nitschke, the inventor of the suicide pill, talks about the Sarco premiere. He considers the criminal proceedings for intentional killing to be absurd. In the interview, Nitschke talks about his […]

November 16, 2024

Sarco Director Still in Custody

NZZ

The Sarco boss is still in custody – now his lawyer is attacking the Schaffhausen authorities The German Florian Willet is being investigated for intentional homicide in connection with the first death in the suicide capsule. Now his defense lawyer is speaking for the first time. Simon Hehli 14.11.2024, 17.24 hrs On September 23, a […]