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...
by APFLI | May 18, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
A former worker for a Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland is speaking out and was so horrified by what she saw that she is now sharing her story with European media. Soraya Wernli was a “companion” worker, someone holding the hand of patients who would...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Ludwig Minelli, the head of Dignitas, is 77, and says it is a human right to decide on one’s own death. A trained lawyer, he founded the assisted suicide organisation 12 years ago. The organisation, whose slogan is ‘”live with dignity, die with...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Remember “My Body, My Choice”?] The advocacy billboards appeared without warning in San Francisco and New Jersey:: “My Life. My Death. My Choice.” Paid for by the Final Exit Network (FEN), the promotional signs received widespread media...
