Dr Philip Nitschke wants to bring death pod to UK (Image: Getty)
A doctor is vowing to bring “death pods” to the UK if assisted dying bill is passed.
Dr Philip Nitschke, 77, has invented the Sarco – a euthanasia machine that fills up with nitrogen gas and says he plans on bringing the device over to the UK if assisted dying is made legal.
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s will “allow adults who are terminally ill, subject to safeguards to be assisted to end their own life; and for connected purpose”, and it is due for its second reading in the at the end of this week.
The machine, which is labelled as the “Tesla of euthanasia”, is meant to allow a person in the device to push a button which fills the sealed machine with nitrogen gas. The person is meant to fall asleep before dying of suffocation. Dr Nitschke believes that the machine would be popular with people undergoing assisted dying but who do not want to end their lives by lethal injection or medicine cocktails.
Now, the doctor is eager to bring it to the UK.
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A new pod is being built in the Netherlands (Image: Getty)
He told : “We have a lot of members there and a lot of UK people following the Sarco project very closely. There would be a lot of scope. I would be very keen to do that.
“It seems to me that will just provide an additional option for those who don’t want the needle and who don’t want the drink… who do like what I describe as the stylish and elegant means that is provided by this device in some idyllic location.”
The doctor went on to add that the Sarco pod can offer people the option of “picking the day and the time” they die, further explaining that the device could accommodate the idea of someone wanting to die in a specific location.
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He used the example of the Lake District offering the ideal picturesque location to use the Sarco machine, as reported in The Telegraph.
However, the Sarco pods experienced controversy following the launch of a police investigation in Switzerland after the first person to use it was allegedly found dead inside with strangulation marks on her neck.
Assisted dying in Switzerland is not a criminal offence as long as there is no selfish motive and all of those involved denied any wrongdoing.
The Swiss police confiscated only two completed machines. However, Dr Nitschke told the Telegraph there he saw “no reason” why the third machine being built in Rotterdam could not be brought into the UK if the law changes.