| 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) was the brief behind the Sarco.
When Exit was approached in 2012 for a technological solution for a UK man with Locked-in Syndrome, it was the Sarco that emerged. No doctor required and yet completely lawful. The elegant design was intended to suggest a sense of occasion: of travel to a ‘new destination’ … |
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Highlights
Open End 2 – Geneva 2022
August 14, 2022
On 15 September 2022, Sarco will open as part of the Open End 2 Exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland.Read More
Sarco@Cube Design Museum 2020
January 26, 2020
Sarco goes on display at Cube Design Museum in the NetherlandsRead More
Sarco at Venice Design 2019
November 10, 2019
Sarco departs Venice Design 2019 for a new exhibition in 2020.Read More
The Idea
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.
Press
Doctor Death
How an Australian came up with the idea of a suicide capsule Philip Nitschke, who says he has watched more ...
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A 3-D Printed Pod Inflames the Assisted Suicide Debate
The pod, known as Sarco, was conceived as a way for people to end their lives without involving a doctor ...
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Suicide capsule ready for test phase in Switzerland
Trouw Newspaper - the Netherlands People who want euthanasia in Switzerland could soon do so with a new method: they ...
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In the works for years, a suicide machine will soon be tested in Switzerland
By Julian Mark December 9, 2021 at 7:25 a.m. EST People wishing to end their lives in Switzerland — one ...
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Sarco aims to take assisted dying out of doctors’ hands with AI & 3D printing
By Tom Bateman • Updated: 09/12/2021 - 12:48 A 3D-printed "suicide capsule" has passed a legal review in Switzerland, potentially ...
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Sarco Passes Legal Review for Use in Switzerland
According to Swiss law experts, the Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland. A 3D-printed capsule, destined for use ...
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Frequently Asked Questions
Death is a voyage of sorts …
Sarco makes it an
event to remember?
Plans
Plans will be published in due course exclusively in the
Peaceful Pill eHandbook
(age caveats apply)
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