3D printed "suicide cabins" soon to be authorized in Switzerland?

Sarco's principle is based on two innovations. The first is to dispense with doctors, both responsible for assessing the mental state of the person wishing to end his life as administering lethal doses of pentobarbital. With this capsule, Nitschke wants artificial intelligence to take over, by assessing the person's mental capacity to die, and for the person concerned to take their destiny into their own hands. The director of Exit International is also considering an online test, potentially delivering an access code to take place in Sarco.

The second advance is based on the process used. “The person will enter the capsule and lie down. It's very comfortable. A number of questions will be asked and, after answering, the person can press the button inside the capsule to activate the mechanism at their own pace,” explains Nitschke.

More precisely, “the capsule rests on a piece of equipment that will flood the interior with nitrogen, rapidly reducing the oxygen level to 1% from 21% initially. The person will feel a little disoriented and slightly euphoric before losing consciousness. The whole thing takes about 30 seconds. Death occurs, respectively, by hypoxia and hypocapnia, oxygen deprivation and finally, carbon dioxide. There is no panic, no feeling of suffocation”, assures the creator of Sarco. Enough to revive the debate on assisted suicide in France?