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Florian Willet was arrested after a 64-year-old American woman died using the 3D-printed Sarco suicide pod in Switzerland
Prosecutors briefly suspected Willet of strangulation, but the allegation was later dropped and he was released without charges
Willet died by assisted suicide in May 2025 following months of legal scrutiny and reported psychological trauma from the case
Months after an American woman's family sued over her controversial death inside a 3D-printed "suicide pod," the Swiss euthanasia activist who helped make it possible has taken his own life.
Florian Willet, the 47-year-old president of Swiss right-to-die organization The Last Resort, died on May 5 in Cologne, Germany with the help of a specialized organization, according to The Times UK , SwissInfo