Suicide Tourism Still Okay in Zurich

[marshabar1]

Voters in the Zurich region of Switzerland have decided to keep a law that allows foreigners to end their lives at its assisted suicide facilities.

Voters were asked whether assisted suicide should be made illegal, either for Swiss nationals or foreigners.

Some 85 per cent voted against an outright ban, and 75 per cent voted against banning it for foreigners.
Surprise

The result was surprising because earlier polls had indicated that a majority of Swiss people were uneasy with so-called ‘suicide tourism’.

The Zurich-based Dignitas facility has been shrouded in controversy. Last year it was investigated over allegations that it helped a mentally unstable man to kill himself.

And a former nurse at the facility says urns containing human ashes were unceremoniously dumped in Lake Zurich.

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[chiver78]

if it were legal everywhere to assist a terminally ill person in ending their life on their terms, places like that wouldn't be needed IMHO. I'm impressed that the Swiss people voted with such good sense.

[Mad Dawg Wiccan]

Chiver,

I used to work in a care facility for Alzheimer's victims. One resident was a member of the Hemlock Society, who waited too long to do the act. She had been a professor at Stanford, holding PhD's in both Biology and Electron Microscopy. When I met her, she was just a gibbering husk with desperation in her eyes.

[marshabar1]

Interesting, Tough.

[marshabar1]

Horrible time and place that.

[hello fromWarsaw]

OP: Christian Fundies

[hello fromWarsaw]

Read: The Good Old Days- They Were Terrible!

[hello fromWarsaw]

Rural living was also pure drudgery , pestilence, etc.

[hello fromWarsaw]

Aren't all us Renaissance People?