In September 2024, a 64-year-old woman became the first human to experience her last moments in a futuristic killing device known as the Sarco pod. One is the Double Dutch Sarco pod, a new-and-improved euthanasia capsule, now augmented with AI and purpose-built for couples who want to draw their last breaths side by side. ‘That part wasn't working when we first used the device,’ he says, meaning the first woman to use the Sarco pod went through a conventional evaluation. A model of the most recent Kairos KollarAs well as the Double Dutch Sarco pod, Nitschke is developing a build-it-yourself device known as the Kairos Kollar. He’s developed it in answer to people’s worries that they won’t meet their country’s medical criteria for assisted dying.

Source: Daily Mail January 17, 2026 16:11 UTC