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A coffin-like capsule that allows people to end their life could be used in Switzerland from next year, its creators say. The Sarco suicide pod allows a user to lie down and activate the process themselves within a matter of minutes. Individuals are asked a series of questions before they can press a button, which brings oxygen down to a critical level. Nitrogen fills the 3D-printed device, quickly bringing oxygen down from 21 percent to only 1 percent in about 30 seconds. A “disorientated” and “euphoric” feeling then follows, before they eventually lose consciousness. Death takes place due to hypoxia...

<p>May 19, 2004 -- VATICAN CITY — A senior American cardinal in the Vatican has accused the U.S. administration of "moral failure" and deception in Iraq.</p> <p>In an interview due to be published in the June edition of Inside the Vatican magazine, James Francis Cardinal Stafford also said the abuse of Iraqi prisoners was the work of "barbarians." Stafford, the former archbishop of Denver who has been working in the Vatican since 1996, said the reasons for starting the war in Iraq were a "moral failure" because of no conclusive proof of weapons of mass destruction.</p>