Florian Willet

Florian Willet (3 August 1977 – 5 May 2025) was a German author and pro-euthanasia activist.

Biography Willet was born in Heidelberg on 3 August 1977. His father was an architect.

Willet's father committed suicide when he was 14. Willet recalled being "surprised" when others told him his father had committed a "selfish" act, saying that although he was sad about his father's death, he did not think that his father had been sad.

Willet initially worked in asset management, before pursuing a career in science. He worked as a communication psychologist, legal scholar and economist. As a university lecturer and academic consultant; Willet focused on behavioral economics, legal philosophy and anthropology, with an interest in cognitive and statistical biases in opinion and judgement formation processes.

Willet lived in Switzerland. He was a spokesperson for Dignitas, and later the president of The Last Resort, The woman had been using a device called a "suicide pod", produced by the company Sarco.

In January 2025, he attempted suicide at his home in Zurich, resulting in him getting hospitalized for psychiatric treatment.

Willet died in Cologne on 5 May 2025, aged 47. According to the inventor of the Sarco pod, Philip Nitschke, Willet died by assisted suicide. Nitschke further added that Willet had been traumatized by his 2024 detention.

Publications Deutschlands Frauen schaffen ihre Männer ab: Florian Willet erklärt weiblichen Chauvinismus, Ludwig, 2011. Florian Willet denkt nach über Hirnforschung, Evolution und Ökologie: Neuropsychologie und Verhaltensökonomie, Ludwig, 2011. Der Soziale Schwan: wo Kahneman, Taleb und Darwin auf Marx stossen, Ludwig, 2017. Mir nach, ich folge Euch!: Wie uns die Parteien über den Tisch ziehen, , 2018. Wie die Parteien uns über den Tisch ziehen, Solibro, 2021.