| 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. |
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Sarco at Venice Design 2019
May 10, 2019
The first full-size, 3D-printed Sarco on display in Venice After two years in development and six months in production, the world’s first fully-3D printed Sarco is now on display at Venice Desig...Read More
‘A very peaceful death’: Euthanasia Activist Nitschke to unveil high-tech death pod @ Venice Design 2019
May 9, 2019
Sarco has been invited to participate in Venice Design 2019Read More
Amsterdam Funeral Fair 2018 – Gallery
April 14, 2018
A full-size, wooden mock-up of Sarco was unveiled at the Amsterdam Funeral Fair on April 14th. 2018Read More
The Idea
Creators
Philip Nitschke
Philip Nitschke is the founder and director of Exit International.
A former medical doctor, in 1996 Philip helped 4 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, 2006 – 2018)
- 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.
Alexander Bannink
Alexander Bannink Industrial Design is gespecialiseerd in productontwikkeling. Van huishoudelijke apparatuur tot meubels en van mobiele ruimtes tot voertuigconcepten. Met innovatieve ontwerpen realiseert Alexander Bannink dagelijks dromen van zijn opdrachtgevers. Daarnaast inspireert hij bedrijven met nieuwe ideeën over hun producten en adviseert hij over productontwikkeling en ontwerp.
Meer informatie: www.alexanderbannink.com
Press
Fast Company
May 29, 2019
The world’s leading euthanasia advocate designs a “death pod”Read More
Daily Star
May 23, 2019
3D printed gas-filled DEATH POD brings designer flair to euthanasiaRead More
Dezeen
May 22, 2019
Philip Nitschke's 3D-printed "death pod" lets users die at the press of a buttonRead More
Vice
May 10, 2019
'Dr Death' Has a New Machine That's Meant to Disrupt the Way We DieRead More
The Huffington Post
May 4, 2018
Here’s Why I Invented A ‘Death Machine’ That Lets People Take Their Own LivesRead More
Newsweek
December 1, 2017
Meet the Elon Musk of Assisted Suicide, whose machine lets you kill yourselfRead More
