Swiss government sees no need for special law on Sarco suicide capsule

Following the first use of the Sarco assisted suicide capsule in Switzerland in September, the government sees no need for legislative action for the time being. It wants to await the results of the cantonal investigations. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "An explicit special legal ban on this assisted suicide capsule is not considered expedient," read the statement published on Thursday by the government in response to a motion by parliamentarian Nina Fehr Düsel. She is calling for the examination of a legal provision that would ban the use of the Sarco suicide capsule in Switzerland. The government waved it away. It wrote that such a ban would only prevent the use of the Sarco capsule in its current form. However, other conceivable instruments and procedures would not be covered by the regulation. + Why liberal Switzerland is opposed to the Sarco suicide capsule The government also refers to the current provisions. Accordingly, the Sarco suicide ...