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FOXNews.com - Swiss Clinic Plans Assisted Suicide of Healthy English Woman - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

The founder of the Swiss assisted-suicide clinic Dignitas revealed plans Thursday to help a healthy wife die alongside her terminally ill husband.

Ludwig Minelli described suicide as a “marvellous opportunity” that should not be restricted to the terminally ill or people with severe disabilities.

The Dignitas clinic, based in a Zurich apartment, claims to have already assisted in the suicides of more than 100 British people.

Minelli said that anyone who has “mental capacity” should be allowed to have an assisted suicide, claiming that it would save money for the National Health Service.

He said that he expected to go to the Swiss courts to seek a ruling in the controversial case of a Canadian couple who have asked to die together.

“The husband is ill, his partner is not ill but she told us here in my living room that, ’If my husband goes, I would go at the same time with him’,” he said.

Minelli, a human rights lawyer, tells The Report on BBC Radio 4 Thursday that the British had an “obsession” with the requirement to be terminally ill.

“It is not a condition to have a terminal illness,” he said. “Terminal illness is a British obsession. As a human rights lawyer I am opposed to the idea of paternalism. We do not make decisions for other people.

“We should have a nicer attitude to suicide, saying suicide is a very good possibility to escape."

Fogbuster

You know this was bound to happen. First the precedent is set to allow "assisted suicide" (used to be called "murder" before we got to 1984), then the rules begin to "loosen up" as to who is allowed to opt for self-destruction. First, you start with people terminally ill, then you go to people terminally depressed, then you go to anyone who's had a bad hair day. Maybe it'll replace Tupper Ware parties!!

Sick, sick, sick. You know the world has reached its moral boundary when this kind of stuff happens. When there is love, there is life. When people stop loving they do want to die. The answer is not more "flexibility" on "assisting" death (aka, "murder"); the answer is giving more love. God's love is boundless, has no limit. Everyone needs to find out how to tap into that love to find the beauty of life. Without God's love people already start to die.

Switzerland needs to wake up and remember her religious heritage, not forget it under the temporal quest for material gain.


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Real World

If someone wants to end their life, they should be allowed to.

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Leo Tolstoy, 1897

FreeTedWilliams

Go right ahead and kill yourself, I've never understood the fasicination with thwarting this. I think that they spent millions of dollars on prosecutining Kevorkian, when they should be just let him be. This, for a least another month or two, is still a free country, and if you want to kill yourself, you should be able to, just make sure that you do not do it, by jumping in front om MY COMMUTER train, which happend 3 times back in NYC.

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wistahpatsfan

I agree. Many of those who will pray and demonstrate to keep this from happening are the same ones who ignore people who have their lives ended involuntarily.

PatsFanInEaglesLand

This doesn't need to be done in a clinic. Just do it yourself. Pills, Gun, tailpipe mask.

I just think those who do it with young kids are cowards.

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Fogbuster

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You guys need to see "What Dreams May Come". Yeah, Robin Williams is in it, but it's not a comedy. Only God has the right to say when.


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wistahpatsfan

It's a movie...it's not real....

Wildo7

and neither is god.

Fogic dictates that you should live your life according to Robin Williams movies and fairy tales though.