Fiona Stewart from Last Resort, Switzerland’s non-profit association focused on assisted suicide, presents the Sarco capsule in Zurich - ARND WIEGMANN/AFP The doctor behind the so-called Sarco “death ...

Talk about “dying with dignity” has grown to a calamitous pitch in recent years. “Right to die” groups vie for supremacy, trying to show who can make the dying experience the least degrading. Who can ...

A portable capsule designed for use in assisted suicide has been authorized by Switzerland's medical review board and could be available within the year, according to a local Swiss news outlet. The ...

Multiple people have been arrested in Switzerland in connection to the seemingly willing use of a "suicide capsule." Police officials of Schaffhausen canton in northern Switzerland announced on ...

The inventor of the 'suicide pod' has revealed in fascinating detail how the controversial machine starts to kill its occupant within just two breaths. Australia-born physician Dr Philip Nitschke ...

Assisted suicide services are controversial, but some countries approve of such life-ending services for certain patients. Switzerland is among the countries that allow terminally ill patients to ...

People wishing to end their lives in Switzerland — one of a handful of countries that give the option — could soon have access to a new method: a 3-D-printed pod that its creator says can painlessly ...