Makers of suicide pod building second capsule after first one seized amid ‘strangulation’ investigation | Human Events

The Dutch inventor of the controversial Sarco Suicide Pod has disclosed that he is building a second capsule after Swiss authorities seized the first one in response to an “intentional homicide investigation.” An American woman who became the first to die in the pod on Sept. 30 was found with strangulation marks on her neck after her death, investigators said.

The Daily Mail has learned that Dr. Philip Nitschke has committed to using a 3D printer to create a new machine in the Netherlands for use in a country other than Switzerland, where the original pod was seized. The announcement comes after Nitchke’s colleague, Dr. Florian Willet, was detained in a Swiss woodland after a 64-year-old woman drove to Merishausen to commit suicide while utilizing the device, which is a death machine that causes hypoxia by releasing nitrogen gas into a sealed chamber.

Despite the Swiss…