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 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The British Medical Association reaffirmed its opposition to assisted suicide at its 2009 annual conference. Despite an attempt by MPs to legalize the practice or allow so-called suicide tourism, doctors rejected a call from BMA member Kailash Chand to change its...
by APFLI | May 20, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Swiss prosecutors in the region of Zurich have instituted stricter regulations that are intended to curb the growing problem of “suicide tourism,” reports The Telegraph. Numerous high-profile cases over the last several years of foreigners traveling to...
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
This is an excellent column by Colleen Carroll Campbell, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC). Apparently, a teenage “suicide craze” has hit the Netherlands and the government wonders why. But Campbell knows. The Dutch do “not seem...
