Suicide pod activist Florian Willet takes his own life after arrest over woman’s death

A man questioned for murder after the death of a woman using a ‘suicide pod’ has taken his own life.

Dr Florian Willet was arrested last September over the death of a 64-year-old woman who died in a Sarco pod in a forest near Merishausen, Switzerland.

She was allegedly found inside with strangulation marks on her neck. Willet, 47, was the only person present for the woman’s death.

The woman was the first person to use the ‘suicide pod’, which kills its inhabitants with nitrogen gas.

Willet, who was a strong advocate for euthanasia, is the president of The Last Resort, which operates Sarco – but despite voluntary assisted suicide being legal in Switzerland, prosecutors have said the pod could be banned.

He was arrested when police arrived at the scene of the woman’s death and was kept