by APFLI | May 29, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Zurich apartment complex residents are gathering signatures to evict Dignitas, the assisted suicide provider that uses a 4th floor flat. Describing it as a “house of horrors”, a long time resident of the complex said, “This is meant to be a residential flat, but some...
by APFLI | May 24, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The following article is a media release from the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland. The release explains that a person who was denied a prescription for Sodium Pentobarbital because of that person’s mental illness has now been granted the right to have the...
by APFLI | May 23, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The Swiss assisted-suicide group Dignitas has been evicted from its operation site in a suburban area due to growing complaints from neighbors. For nine years the assisted-suicide clinic at Gertrudstrasse 84 received people three or four times a week — waiting...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Dignitas, the Swiss group that has assisted the suicides of 619 of its Swiss and foreign members since 1998, has petitioned the Swiss Supreme Court to permit it to facilitate the deaths of those deemed chronically depressed or mentally ill. Dignitas founder Ludwig...
by APFLI | May 19, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli said he plans to test the legality of helping a healthy person end their life alongside their terminally-ill partner.The head of the Dignitas euthanasia clinic in Switzerland declared that he believed assisted suicide should be...