Four people have been arrested after the first case of euthanasia in a Sarco capsule, the SDA reports. A criminal case has been opened against them for incitement and assistance to suicide. At the same time, the country’s Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider called the use of the device illegal shortly before the incident.
According to the agency, after the first use of the capsule, one of the heads of the Swiss company The Last Resort, which provides voluntary euthanasia services, was detained . In addition, two lawyers and a Dutch journalist who were present when the device was launched are in custody.
Doctors have given permission to euthanize a 28-year-old woman from the Netherlands. According to Fox News, the girl suffers from depression, borderline personality disorder and autism. According to a psychiatrist who has been observing the patient for many years, she will never get better.
Earlier, Florida resident Ellen Gilland was released on bail after killing her terminally ill husband. The 76-year-old woman shot her 77-year-old husband at his request in a hospital room in Daytona Beach.
The woman was released on $150,000 bail and was given conditions of supervision: She must take medication, is prohibited from possessing or using firearms, and cannot visit a hospital unless absolutely necessary.