(Re)design Death

2020

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Sarco Presentation Video

Sarco at Venice Design 2019

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What if we dared to imagine that our last day might also be one of our most exciting?

What if we had more than mere dignity to look forward to on our last day on this planet?

News

Sarco X near ready for Lift Off

August 7, 2020

New Sarco X passes lab test phase & is nears being ready for launch
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Sarco@Cube Design Museum

January 26, 2020

Sarco goes on display at Cube Design Museum in the Netherlands
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Sarco at Venice Design 2019

May 10, 2019

Sarco departs Venice Design 2019 for the low lands of a new exhibition in the Netherlands in 2020.
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The Idea

Where Art Meets its End … The concept of a capsule that could produce a rapid decrease in oxygen level, while maintaining a low CO2 level, (the conditions for a peaceful, even euphoric death) led to Sarco’s development. Is it art or … ? The elegant design was intended to suggest a sense of occasion: of travel to a ‘new destination’, and to dispel the ‘yuk’ factor.

Features

Portable

Coffin incorpoated

3D Printed

Creator

Philip Nitschke

Philip Nitschke is the founder and director of Exit International.

A former medical doctor, in 1996 Philip helped four of his terminally ill patients to die using Australia’s Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.

Philip is the co-author of:

Killing Me Softly: Voluntary Euthanasia and the Road to the Peaceful Pill (with Fiona Stewart) (Penguin, 2005)
The Peaceful Pill Handbook (with Fiona Stewart) (Exit International, 2020)
Damned If I Do (with Peter Corris) (Melbourne University Press, 2013)

Philip has designed several end of life machines including the CoGen and the Destiny. The Deliverance Machine (used in the Northern Territory by his patients in 1996) is on permanent display in the British Science Museum in London.