The doctor behind the so-called Sarco "death pod" has said he will bring his invention to Britain if assisted dying is made legal.
Dr Philip Nitschke, 77, has said he is ready to launch in Britain a 3D-printed portable machine that floods with nitrogen gas at the press of a button, should Labour MP Kim Leadbeater's assisted dying Bill become law.
The Private Member's Bill is due for its second reading in the House of Commons at the end of next week.
Dubbed the "Tesla of euthanasia", the spaceship-like portable devices are fitted with a transparent pane to afford the user a meaningful vista for their final moments.
Dr Nitschke said the machine could prove popular with people undergoing assisted dying who do not want to die by lethal injection or medicine cocktails designed to end their life.
He told The Telegraph he is "absolutely" keen to bring the Sarco pod to the UK.
He said: "We have a lot of members there, and a lot of UK people following the Sarco project very closely. There would be a lot of scope. I would be very keen to do that.
"It seems to me that it will just provide an additional option for those who don't want the needle and who don't want the drink... who do like what I describe as the stylish and elegant means that is provided by this device in some idyllic location."
Dr Nitschke suggested that the Lake District might offer the ideal picturesque location to use the assisted dying machine, saying: "For people who have got that choice of picking the day and the time... it is the most important day of your life, presumably, the day you die."
He added: "If you want to be overlooking the lakes or the mountains or looking [at] whatever, there's no reason why they shouldn't be accommodated. Certainly, Sarco can do that."
Leading legal academics told The Telegraph that the broad wording of Ms Leadbeater's Bill would make Dr Nitschke's machine legal in Britain with the Health Secretary's approval.
Richard Ekins KC, professor of law and constitutional government at St John's College, Oxford, said: "If Kim Leadbeater's Bill passes, and if the Secretary of State approves liquid nitrogen as an approved substance, then the Sarco death pod would be a lawful means to assist suicide in Britain."
Prof Ekins said if Wes Streeting, who intends to vote against the Bill this Friday, rejects the Sarco device, those with swallowing difficulties or needle phobias are "likely" to bring a discrimination challenge under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
He added: "I'm not saying a challenge would succeed, but a phobia could be an 'other status' for the purposes of Article 14 of the ECHR and thus the question would again be why one is interfering with the Article 8 right to private life in this discriminatory fashion, limiting the effective right to die for some but not others."
The upcoming Bill specifies that doctors can "prepare a medical device which will enable that person to self-administer the substance" and "assist that person to ingest or otherwise self-administer the substance". The "substance" used is left to ministerial discretion.
In coming to the UK, the Sarco pod, which has so far only been used once in Switzerland, would be returning to its roots. The machine was initially developed following a request from the lawyers of British quadriplegic Tony Nicklinson, who in 2012 led the most high-profile legal challenge to date against the UK's assisted dying ban.
Under Swiss law, helping another person to die is not a criminal offence as long as there is no selfish motive.
On Sept 23 an unnamed 64-year-old American woman with a rare bone infection died in the capsule.
Several people were arrested in September on charges of assisting her to use the Dutch-made device.
Police took the woman's body, and the pathologist reportedly noted "strange marks" on her neck. All those involved have denied wrongdoing.
Although Swiss police seized the only two existing Sarco units following the arrests, Dr Nitschke told The Telegraph he saw "no reason" why the third, now under construction in Rotterdam, could not be brought to Britain if the law changes.
Dr Nitschke said: "We are printing a new Sarco now to make up for the one that the Swiss have confiscated. I can see no reason why it couldn't be used in the UK when the law comes in."