| 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 any ‘yuk’ factor. |
|
News
Sarco Opens in New Exhibition
September 10, 2021
Sarco opens in a new exhibition at the Museum for Sepulchral Culture in Kassel Germany.Read More
Sarco@Cube Design Museum
January 26, 2020
Sarco goes on display at Cube Design Museum in the NetherlandsRead More
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.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
Suicide machine that could be controlled by the blink of an eye sparks euthanasia debate
An euthanasia expert just unveiled his ‘suicide machine’ at an Amsterdam funeral fair
Frequently Asked Questions
Sarco Presentation Video
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