Suicide Podactivist takes his own life after he was arrested for murder of the woman who used the sarco pod he promoted

A supporter of euthanasia that was questioned by murder detectives after the death of a woman who used a controversial Sarco Euthanasia pod last year was died by assisted suicide, was announced yesterday.

Dr. Florian Willet, 47, was arrested in September 2024 after the death of the 64-year-old woman after the police claimed that there were strangulation traces in her neck.

He was the only person who was present for the death of the woman, who was the first person to use the Sarco Suicide device, which was set up in a forest near Merisherusen, Switzerland.

Dr. Willet was held when the police arrived on the spot and he remained in custody for 70 days while researchers investigated the circumstances surrounding death.

The public prosecutor said that there had been a ‘strong suspicion’ that ‘deliberate murder’ had been in the game.

But these accusations would have such a traumatic effect on the author and activist that he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital twice before his death on 5 May.

Exit International Director Dr. Philip Nitschke, who invented the Sarco pod, wrote yesterday: ‘When Florian was suddenly released from before the pre-trial detention at the beginning of December 2024, he was a changed man.

‘His warm smile and self -confidence was gone. Instead, a man who seemed deeply traumatized was due to the experience of imprisonment and the unlawful accusation of strangulation. ‘

Dr. Florian Willet (above), who was questioned last year during the death of a 64-year-old who used a pod, died by assisted suicide

Sarco Pod -inventor Dr. Philip Nitschke (above, right) said that the accusations had a hugely harmful effect on Dr. Willet after he was freed from police custody

Dr. Willet was only a person present for the death of the woman, who was the first person to use the nitrogen gascapsule (above) after it was set up in a forest near Merisherusen, Switzerland

Dr. Nitschke told the Dutch news exit Volkskrant That Dr. Willet died last month in Cologne ‘with the help of a specialized organization’.

In the death notice of Dr. Willet, which announced his death yesterday, Dr. unveiled Nitschke that the 47-year-old earlier this year had been ‘fallen’ of the third floor of his property in Zurich, giving him ‘serious damage’.

Dr. Nitschke said that he was completely judged by a psychiatric team during his three -month recovery, who said that Dr. Willet ‘an acute polymorphic psychotic disorder’ had developed.

He says this was caused “after the stress from before the process and the associated processes.”

Dr. Nitschke added: ‘Nobody was surprised. The Spirit of Florian was broken. He knew he did nothing illegal or wrong, but his belief in the rule of law in Switzerland was in doors.

“In the last months of his life, Dr. Florian Willet, Dr. Florian Willet, more than every man.”

Dr. Nitschke (above, left) revealed that the 47-year-old (above, right) had been ‘fallen’ earlier this year from the third floor of his property in Zurich, which made him ‘serious damage’

The above map shows where the controversial supported suicide took place last September, as a result of which Dr. Willet was arrested

Dr. Willet had informed Swiss authorities after the death of the woman and they quickly descended on the forest.

The police discovered the lifeless body of the woman in the pod and arrested several people.

Dr. Willet was held with two lawyers and a Volkskrant photographer who had taken pictures of the pod and documented the woman who arrived in the forest.

The public prosecutor in the Schaffhausen Canton said that the makers of Sarco were warned not to use the device in the region, but that the warning was not taken into account.

“We warned them in writing,” said Peter Sticher public prosecutor in September. “We said if they came to Schaffhausen and use Sarco, they would have a criminal consequences.”

Shown: Philip Nitschke is in a ‘Suicid Pod’ known as ‘The Sarco’ in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 8 July 2024

Dr. Willet described death in the controversial capsule as ‘peaceful, fast and worthy’.

After accusations of ‘strangulation markings’ on the first person to use the Sarco, a person close to the Swiss Sarco operator said the last resort she was previously diagnosed with skull base osteomyelitis.

The disease could manifest itself as an infection of the bone marrow, which could have been responsible for the figures on her neck that looked like strangulation markings, the person told the Swiss outlet NZZ.

The POD is designed in such a way that the pressure on the button injects nitrogen gas into the enclosed room, with the person dying due to suffocation within a few minutes.

Before his arrest, Dr. Willet that he had considered suicide at the age of five. His father died by suicide when he was 14 years old and he said he was ‘completely in order’.

He added: ‘I was extremely sad because I loved my father. But I immediately understood that my father wanted to do this because he was a rational person, which means he expects that he will stay alive only because I would need a father to expand his suffering. ‘

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