Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule said Sunday they have suspended the process of taking applications to use it — which numbered over 370 last month — as a criminal investigation into its first use in Switzerland is completed.

The president of Switzerland-based The Last Resort, Florian Willet, is being held in pretrial detention, said the group and Exit International, an affiliate founded in Australia over a quarter century ago.

Swiss police arrested Willet and several other people following the death of an unidentified 64-year-old woman from the U.S. Midwest who on Sept. 23 became the first person to use the device, known as the “Sarco,” in a forest in the northern Schaffhausen region near the German border.

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    2 months ago

    They just want to make sure it’s safe to die in.

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      Death is totally safe. Nothing can happen to you when you’re dead. Life is where stuff can be bad.

      I used to not be alive, but someone went and fucked that up for me. Next time it’ll be too specific for me to come back.

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      It’s clearly against their law is probably part of the issue. The company gets a financial gain, which is obviously a benefit from the users death.