Advocacy Groups Suspend Use of ‘Suicide Capsule’ Pending Swiss Criminal Probe of Woman’s Death

Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule said Sunday they have suspended the process of taking applications to use it—which numbered over 370 last month—as a criminal investigation into its first use in Switzerland is completed. The president of Switzerland-based The Last Resort, Florian Willet, is being held in pretrial detention, said the group and Exit International, an affiliate founded in Australia over a quarter century ago. Swiss police arrested Willet and several other people following the death of an unidentified 64-year-old woman from the U.S. Midwest who on Sept. 23 became the first person to use the device, known as the “Sarco,” in a forest in the northern Schaffhausen region near the German border....