The Swiss right-to-die organization Exit says it helped 583 people to die in German-speaking Switzerland in 2014, 124 more than the previous year.
The Zurich-based non-profit group, which helps arrange physician-assisted suicides, said on Wednesday that it registered a record 13,413 new members last year, up 20 percent from 2013.
It counted more than 81,000 members at December 31st, while an additional 5,000 members signed up in January and February this year.
Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland through regulations since 1942.
The law requires a physician to be involved and recipients must be suffering from a terminal illness, or from a disease that leads to an unendurable incapacitating disability, or suffering unbearable pain.
Exit said the increase in interest in assisted suicides has grown because of media coverage, the extension of assisted suicide to cover multiple chronic diseases linked to old age, the ageing of a growing population and the increase in cases of dementia. Full story...
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The Zurich-based non-profit group, which helps arrange physician-assisted suicides, said on Wednesday that it registered a record 13,413 new members last year, up 20 percent from 2013.
It counted more than 81,000 members at December 31st, while an additional 5,000 members signed up in January and February this year.
Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland through regulations since 1942.
The law requires a physician to be involved and recipients must be suffering from a terminal illness, or from a disease that leads to an unendurable incapacitating disability, or suffering unbearable pain.
Exit said the increase in interest in assisted suicides has grown because of media coverage, the extension of assisted suicide to cover multiple chronic diseases linked to old age, the ageing of a growing population and the increase in cases of dementia. Full story...
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