Dr Philip Nitschke has devoted his life to the radical belief that every person should have the tools to die. Now his latest device could disrupt suicide laws across the globe, writes Io Dodds
. “We talk to a lot of people who want to end their lives, and there’s quite a number who, if they had their choice, would pick something like this.” Inquiries about the Sarco, he says, have risen from several a week to several every day – from the US and beyond.In 1999, a retired academic named Lisette Nigot buttonholed Dr Nitschke after a workshop in Perth, Australia, and demanded to know how she could kill herself before she turned 80.
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