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Wednesday, April 19, 2006A Swiss lawyer who runs a “suicide clinic” that has helped 42 Britons to kill themselves, intends to offer his services to people who are not terminally ill. Ludwig Minelli, founder of the Dignitas clinic in Zurich, says he wants to open a chain of high street-style centres to end the lives of people with illnesses or mental conditions such as chronic depression. “We never say no,” ..... .....In 2003 Jennifer and Robert Stokes, who both suffered from depression, died in each other’s arms after travelling to the clinic to kill themselves.Minelli, 74, admitted that neither was terminally ill but said British law could not prosecute him because none of his assistants would ever give evidence. Some in Britain would like to make suicide immigration unnecessary: The need for terminally ill British people to travel to Switzerland to die would be eliminated if Lord Joffe’s assisted dying for the terminally ill bill becomes law. Joffe has said: “I can assure you that I would prefer that the [new] law did apply to patients who were younger and who were not terminally ill but who were suffering unbearably,” but added: “I believe that this bill should initially be limited.” Good idea. Maybe people won't notice if it's done gradually. After all, there's no such thing as a slippery slope, is there? posted by Sydney on 4/19/2006 09:40:00 PM 1 comments 1 Comments:Suicide immigration, that's a powerful way of putting it. That's the first I've heard of the concept. Scary. By 1:39 PM , at |
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