Swiss assisted suicide campaigner dies in Germany

Florian Willet, co-president of the assisted suicide organisation The Last Resort, died on May 5 in Germany. The 47-year-old was present when the Sarco suicide capsule was first used in Switzerland in September 2024 and had been placed in pre-trial detention for 70 days. The death was announced in an obituary published yesterday on the website of The Last Resort. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Willet, who lived in Zurich, was the only person present when an American woman took her own life in a forest near Merishausen in canton Schaffhausen on September 23, 2024. The public prosecutor's office in Schaffhausen had subsequently ordered preventive detention against him and had also opened criminal proceedings against other people. The public prosecutor's office believed that Willet might have killed the woman because the capsule had not worked as intended. However, the suspicion was not confirmed and the man was released in early December 2024. The ...