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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Bruce Golding

Hundreds Of People Left In Limbo After Suicide Pod Use Suspended During Swiss Probe

Fiona Stewart, chief operating officer of The Last Resort, poses next to the Sarco suicide capsule in Zurich on July 17, 2024. (Credit: ARND WIEGMANN/AFP via Getty Images)

Advocates for assisted suicide have suspended use of a controversial suffocation pod pending the resolution of a criminal case against the head of a Swiss nonprofit that promoted it.

Florian Willet, president of The Last Resort, is being held in pretrial detention in the Sept. 23 death of an American woman who used the device, the Associated Press reported Sunday, citing a statement from Willett's group and another nonprofit, Exit International.

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