A 'death capsule' designed to carry out assisted suicides has been banned by prosecutors in Switzerland weeks before it was set to be used for the first time. The Sarco, short for sarcophagus, would ...

Switzerland's controversial invention designed to facilitate assisted suicide, the "Sarco" pod, has been blocked by prosecutors in the country just weeks before its planned rollout in euthanasia ...

The U.S.-based legal group Alliance Defending Freedom has issued a legal brief supporting Swiss laws that bar assisted suicide for those who do not suffer from any fatal disease. "The government has ...

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The Swiss lawyer who turned assisted death into a political and moral battleground has ended his own life at one of his clinics.

Ludwig Minelli founded the group in 1998, which has since helped thousands of people to die.

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A Swiss prisoner is challenging the country's policy to bar inmates from receiving assisted suicide after his request to die was denied. Peter Vogt, 69, is serving the equivalent of a life sentence ...

A British-born scientist who is 104 is flying to Switzerland next week to end his life at a euthanasia clinic. Australia’s oldest scientist, Dr David Goodall, who was born in London, doesn’t have a ...

DAVID Goodall shot to fame after announcing as a centenarian he was sick of his declining health and ended his own life in a Swiss euthanasia clinic on May 10. Here is all you need to know about the ...

The European Court of Human Rights is hearing a case launched by a Swiss woman after she failed to secure a doctor’s prescription for drugs to commit suicide. WASHINGTON — The U.S.-based legal group ...