Euthanasia Advocate Takes His Personal Life Months After ‘Suicide Pod’ Arrest

An advocate for euthanasia who was concerned within the controversial Sarco suicide pod has died by suicide himself — simply months after he was arrested when an American lady turned the first to die by the invention.

Dr. Florian Willet — who headed up a pro-euthanasia group known as The Final Resort, an affiliate of Exit Worldwide that gives free assisted suicide providers — spent a couple of months locked up after being hit with aiding and abetting suicide costs over the lady’s loss of life final September.

Dr. Philip Nitschke, head of Exit Worldwide, says regardless that the costs didn’t stick and Willet was cleared of intentional murder in December, he emerged from jail a modified man.

Sky News reports the 47-year-old Willet fell from the third story of his Swiss condo constructing in January — unclear if intentional or not — and after surgical procedure and months of rehab, he died by assisted suicide in Germany, in keeping with Nitschke. The technique of his assisted suicide weren’t revealed.

ICYDK, Willet was current when a 64-year-old Midwestern American lady turned the primary to die utilizing the Sarco pod final 12 months … sparking big controversy.

Assisted suicide’s been authorized in Switzerland because the Forties — however the Sarco pod hadn’t gotten the inexperienced mild from Swiss officers when it was used for the primary time final 12 months.

The three-D printed Sarco pod works by flooding a sealed chamber with nitrogen gasoline — placing the consumer to sleep earlier than they quietly suffocate. There’s a button inside that the particular person has to press to launch the gasoline … a key element, since Swiss legislation requires the person to provoke their very own loss of life. Prosecutors alleged the system malfunctioned and the lady died by strangulation.