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Suicide Pod Creator ‘Dr. Death’ Defends First Use of Controversial Machine

‘IDYLLIC PEACEFUL DEATH’

The so-called “Sacro capsule” was invented by Philip Nitschke, a former physician and an assisted suicide advocate who said the alleged victim “really wanted to die.”

A view of the Sarco suicide machine, a 3D-printed capsule that gives the user the ultimate control over the timing of her/his death, created by Australian euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke
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