Multiple people were detained and a criminal case has been opened in northern Switzerland after a person died by assisted suicide Monday, according to police in the town of Schaffhausen.

Authorities in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen arrested a group of people Tuesday in connection with the first-time unsanctioned use of the assisted suicide capsule known as Sarco, with which a ...

The first person who died in a so-called 'suicide pod' was told three unnerving words before her death, it has been revealed.

The first woman to end her life using the controversial ‘suicide pod’ in Switzerland was found with strangulation marks on ...

Police in northern Switzerland said Tuesday that several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a new “suicide capsule.” ...

Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide since 1942 but the first death with the Sarco suicide pod has raised questions.

Switzerland legalised assisted dying in 1942 on the condition ... The "Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide ...

The suicide pod's creator claimed she entered ... of Schaffhausen in writing that they are available to be questioned in Switzerland." It is understood 120 people want to use the pod to end ...

Konrad Michel, MD, Psychiatrist from the University of Bern, Switzerland, discusses the clinical approach to suicidal ...