Switzerland

Prosecute police, says Dignitas. They stopped our suicide

Michael Cook | 17 August 2012

The Swiss group Dignitas has filed a complaint against the Zurich prosecutor’s office for interrupting an assisted suicide. On August 2, a 67-year-old woman suffering from a genetic disease who weighed only 35 kilos attempted to kill herself at a Dignitas clinic.

Assisted-suicide booms in Switzerland

Jared Yee | 27 February 2012

The number of patients in Switzerland who killed themselves with the help of assisted-suicide organisations rose significantly in 2011, new figures show.

Zurich voters want assisted suicide to stay

Peter Saunders | 17 May 2011

Voters in Zurich, Switzerland, have today rejected proposed bans on assisted suicide and ‘suicide tourism’. A proposal to restrict access for foreigners to assisted suicide only to those living at least one year in the canton was rejected by 78.4 percent of voters.

Dignitas boss: let partners of terminally ill who commit suicide die too

Michael Cook | 04 November 2010

The founder of controversial Swiss assisted-suicide clinic Dignitas, Ludwig Minelli, has said that anyone whose terminally ill partner commits suicide should also be assisted in dying – even if they are in perfect physical health.