{"id":331145,"date":"2025-05-14T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=331145"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:24:28","slug":"heartbreaking-married-couple-46-years-suicide-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/heartbreaking-married-couple-46-years-suicide-pod\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreaking: Married couple of 46 years will die together in ‘suicide pod’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A couple from the UK has signed up<\/a> to die together in the Sarco “suicide pod” in Switzerland, and their deaths will allegedly be filmed.<\/p>\n

Peter Scott (86) and Christine Scott (80) contacted the assisted suicide group “The Last Resort” last year regarding the Sarco machine because they wanted to commit suicide together after Christine received a diagnosis of vascular dementia \u2014\u00a0dementia caused by reduced blood flow to the brain.<\/p>\n

But it wasn’t the diagnosis that worried them; what they fear is that neither of them will receive prompt treatment for their health conditions through the National Health Service (NHS).<\/p>\n

“The chances of getting prompt NHS treatment for the ailments of old age seem pretty remote, so you end up trapped by infirmity and pain,” said Peter.<\/p>\n

He told News.com.au<\/a>, “We have had long, happy, healthy, fulfilled lives but here we are old and it does not do nice things to you. The idea of watching the slow degradation of Chris’s mental abilities in parallel to my physical decline is horrific to me.”<\/p>\n

Rather than live out their lives, the couple will enter the Sarco pod \u2014 a device that, at the push of a button, will release nitrogen into the air, reducing the oxygen. They will die from hypoxia. According to Inspire<\/a>, their deaths will be “filmed and provided to a coroner as evidence, setting a historic precedent in the field of assisted dying.”<\/p>\n