| 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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Sarco Short Film
Highlights
Sarco @ NVVE 50th Birthday, 2023
June 5, 2023
The Sarco is viewed at the 50th anniversary celebration Dutch NVVERead More
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.Read More
Sarco@Cube Design Museum 2020
January 26, 2020
Sarco goes on display at Cube Design Museum in the NetherlandsRead More
The Idea
Creator
Philip Nitschke
Philip Nitschke is the founder and director of Exit International.
A former medical doctor with a PhD in experimental physics, in 1996 Philip helped four of his terminally ill patients to die using Australia’s Rights of the Terminally Ill Act.
Through his work at Exit International, 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 display in the British Science Museum in London.
In December 2023, Philip appeared as an expert witness for the defense in the application for a stay of execution by nitrogen hypoxia of Kenny Smith in Alabama, USA.
Philip’s testimony has direct relevance to the Sarco Project in that it explains the fundamentals of death by nitrogen hypoxia.
For more information, please visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Nitschke
