The use of ‘suicide pods’ or ‘suicide capsules’ in Switzerland has been suspended after a criminal investigation was launched over the death of a US woman.

Advocacy groups behind a "suicide capsule" said they have suspended applications to use it until Swiss authorities complete a criminal probe into the death from its first use.

Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule say they have suspended the process of taking applications for its use as a criminal investigation into its first use in Switzerland is completed.

Advocacy groups paused applications for the controversial Sarco suicide capsule amid a criminal investigation following its first use in Switzerland, resulting in the death of a 64-year-old American woman.

Berne: Weeks after an unidentified 64-year-old woman from the US Midwest died using the suicide capsule 'Sarco,' advocacy groups announced the suspension of applications for its use—previously exceeding 370 last month—pending the completion of a criminal investigation into its initial deployment in Switzerland.

On September 23, an unidentified woman from the United States became the first person to use the suicide capsule, known as the Sarco, in a forest in the northern Schaffhausen region.