Inside the first Sarco pod suicide: US woman 'almost immediately pressed the button as she lay down and looked up at the trees and sky… then lost consciousness in two minutes and died after five'

The first person to use the Sarco suicide pod got into the device and ‘almost immediately pressed the button’ to take her own life, its creator has claimed.

The capsule is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber, causing hypoxia and death soon after.

It was set up in a woodland near a cabin in Merishausen, northern Switzerland, with the pod’s window allowing the 64-year-old American woman to see the trees and sky above her before she…