The use of ‘suicide pods’ or ‘suicide capsules’ in Switzerland has been suspended after a criminal investigation was launched over the death of a US woman.

Advocacy groups behind a "suicide capsule" said they have suspended applications to use it until Swiss authorities complete a criminal probe into the death from its first use.

Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule say they have suspended the process of taking applications for its use as a criminal investigation into its first use in Switzerland is completed

Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule said Sunday they have suspended the process of taking applications to use it — which numbered over 370 last month — as a criminal investigation into its first use in Switzerland is completed.

On September 23, an unidentified woman from the United States became the first person to use the suicide capsule, known as the Sarco, in a forest in the northern Schaffhausen region.