Once inside the sealed chamber of the futuristic Sarco “suicide pod” the woman was given an eerie command: “If you want to die, press this button.” 

So she did, and the chamber flooded with nitrogen gas. Her oxygen levels plummeted, causing her to pass out. She was dead within minutes.  

The woman, who has yet to be identified, was 64 years old. An American suffering from a severely compromised immune system, she’d flown to Switzerland to obtain an assisted suicide using the hideously sleek invention, which had been placed beneath a canopy of trees in the Swiss woodlands.