Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland
> <i>P.N.: Currently a doctor or doctors need to be involved to prescribe the sodium pentobarbital and to confirm the person’s mental capacity. We want to remove any kind of psychiatric review from the process and allow the individual to control the method themselves.<p>Our aim is to develop an artificial intelligence screening system to establish the person’s mental capacity.</i><p>That sounds like a terrible idea. There are valid concerns about doctor involvement in the process, but AI won't fix those.