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

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

Printed June 3, 2025 9:28 AM PDT

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 girl turned the first to die by the invention.

Dr. Florian Willet — who headed up a pro-euthanasia group referred to as The Final Resort, an affiliate of Exit Worldwide that provides free assisted suicide companies — spent a couple of months locked up after being hit with aiding and abetting suicide expenses over the girl’s demise final September.

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

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

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

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

The three-D printed Sarco pod works by flooding a sealed chamber with nitrogen fuel — 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 fuel … a key element, since Swiss legislation requires the person to provoke their very own demise. Prosecutors alleged the gadget malfunctioned and the girl died by strangulation.