The group behind the capsule, The Last Resort, said that the deceased was an American woman, 64, who had been suffering from a severely compromised immune system.

Swiss police have detained several people after an American woman died using the device Police in Switzerland announced ...

A controversial 'suicide capsule' was reportedly used for the first time in Switzerland by an American woman from the Midwest ...

An American woman suffering from an autoimmune condition has reportedly become the first person to use the Sarco 'suicide pod ...

Swiss Police have arrested several people after a 64-year-old US woman reportedly died on Monday using a so-called ...

A photograph authentically shows a "suicide pod" designed for assisted suicide sitting in a Swiss forest, where it was used ...

Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to ...

The Swiss police said they had detained “several individuals” after a 64-year-old American woman reportedly died by suicide ...

Following the death of an American woman in a so-called suicide capsule in Switzerland and the arrest of several people ...

Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, but authorities said gas used in the capsule doesn't meet safety requirements.

Dr Philip Nitschke's earlier device from the 1990s, the Deliverance Machine, gave people control over their own lethal dose.