Switzerland: His childhood trauma inspired the creator of the “suicide capsule” Sarco

The proponent of euthanasia and one of the presidents of Sarco, the eternity that created the capsule in Dr Florian Willet described the first death in the controversial device on Monday (23.09.2024) as “peaceful, fast and dignified”. Co-chair of “The Last Resort”, the company set up for the operation of the assisted suicide capsule in Switzerland, is said to have been the only person present and seen him as she pressed a button to release nitrogen in the chamber to die. Almost immediately after, the police arrived and arrested the 47-year-old, placing him and several others in custody, where he remains. Prosecutors in the community of Safhausen in Switzerland yesterday (24.09.2024) confirmed that “they initiated criminal proceedings against many people for incitement and aiding suicide.” Who is Dr Florian Willet – The suicide of his father who marked him after the scandal that broke out using the assisted suicide chamber was revealed and the tragic past of the president of Sarco arrested in Switzerland. This is a child’s trauma that inspired Florian Willet’s campaign for the right to death. The German-born activist, who describes himself as an economist and communication psychologist, previously worked as a spokesperson for the clinical euthanasia Dignitas, before joining The Last Resort. Asked about what inspired his work in a recent interview, he described how he had thoughts about taking his life at a young age, as well as how he faced his father’s suicide as a teenager. “Since the age of 5 I have been thinking about my death from suicide,” Willet revealed in an interview with YouTube. “And also, my father. He committed suicide when I was 14. In fact, I was totally okay with it.” “I mean, I was extremely sad because I loved my father. But I immediately realized that my father wanted to do this because he was a reasonable person, meaning that waiting for him to stay alive just because I need a father would mean extending his pain, ” he says. “That would be very selfish on my part”, he argued. “That’s why I was absolutely fine with the situation. I treated it as a teenager.” He said he was visited by a priest and a psychiatrist, who told him that his father’s death was “emotional”, because he should have stayed alive for his son’s sake. “Keeping my father alive just because I need him as a young man is like being on a farm using horses or animals to do the job. Abuse of a living being. It’s horrible,” Willet said. Willet declares an atheist. Last July, as he presented Sarco to the world at a press conference, he told reporters: “I have compared all the options I have available to die and there is no better way, in my eyes, to me than to breathe air without oxygen, until you lose consciousness and fall into an endless sleep.” Sarco is designed to allow the person inside to press a button that introduces nitrogen into the sealed chamber. Then the person is supposed to fall asleep and suffocate in a few minutes. Sarco’s inventor, Dr Philip Nitschke, argued that the presentation Monday went “as expected”, telling the Dutch media: “My appreciation is that she lost consciousness within two minutes and died after five minutes”. Phillip Nitschke, also known as “Dr Death”, architect of Sarco – Photo source: Reuters In July, Willet said Switzerland was “makran the best place” for the use of Sarco, due to its “great liberal system”. Swiss legislation generally allows assisted suicide if the person commits the deadly act himself. But Interior Minister Baume-Scneider, answering questions in parliament on Monday, said: “The Sarco suicide capsule is not legally compatible for two reasons. Firstly, it does not meet the requirements of product safety legislation and therefore cannot be placed on the market. Secondly, the corresponding use of nitrogen is incompatible with the article on the purpose of the Chemicals Act,” he said. Fiona Stewart, who participates in The Last Resort board along with Willet, said the group is acting on the basis of legal advice, which “since 2021 they have consistently found that the use of Sarco in Switzerland would be legitimate.” 64-year-old American the first man to die in the Sarco suicide chamber A 64-year-old woman from the U.S. is the first man to use the Sarco assisted suicide chamber in Switzerland. She suffered from “serious immune deficiency”, was the mother of two children and suffered from “very serious illness” as reported, with great pain. That is why he “wanted to die for at least two years” added the same information. The woman entered the chamber and “almost immediately pressed the button” to put an end to her life. Suffhausen prosecutor Peter Sticher told the Swiss newspaper Blick that many people were arrested “so as not to conspire with each other or cover up evidence. They knew the risks of arrest. We warned them in writing. We said that if they come to Safhausen and use Sarco, they will face criminal consequences.” Information from Dailymail