The right-to-die activist behind a new “suicide capsule” says he rejects “absurd” allegations that the U.S. woman who was said to be its first user may have actually been strangled.

The "Sarco" capsule is designed to allow a person sitting inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber.

Police in Switzerland are investigating the alleged use of a suicide capsule to kill multiple people, including a 64-year-old woman who was an American citizen.

Multiple people were detained and a criminal case has been opened in northern Switzerland after a person died by assisted suicide Monday, according to police.

A 64-year-old American was reported to have died by assisted suicide in a remote forest in northern Switzerland with the help of two right-to-die groups that facilitated her use of a Sarco capsule ...

The creator of the "suicide capsule" and right-to-die activist recently disputed strangulation claims made against his company. Philip Nitschke, founder of the advocacy group Exit International ...

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 ...

The use of the Sarco suicide capsule, dubbed the “Tesla of euthanasia,” has been suspended just weeks after an American woman ended her life in the controversial morbid machine.

Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to commit suicide was used for the first time, authorities said on Tuesday.