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Dignitas is a Swiss non-profit organization providing physician-assisted suicide to members with terminal illness or severe physical or mental illness, supported by independent Swiss doctors. By the end of 2020, they had assisted 3,248 people with suicide at home within Switzerland and at Dignitas' house/flat near Zürich. [1]
Swiss law only allows providing means to die by suicide and the reasons for doing so must not be based on self-interest (such as monetary gain). [6] Nonprofit organisations administering life-ending medicine were first established in Switzerland in the 1980s. Article 115 of the Swiss Criminal Code reads: [5]
Pegasos Swiss Association or Pegasos is a non-profit [1] group based in Basel, Switzerland with a minimal-bureaucracy approach to assisted suicide. (They also used to have an office in Melbourne, Australia, [2] which is now closed). In Greek mythology, Pegasus is a winged horse that the Pegasos association sees as symbolizing how patients ...
The Sarco pod (also known as Pegasos, and sometimes referred to as a "suicide pod" [1]) is a euthanasia device or machine consisting of a 3D-printed detachable capsule mounted on a stand that contains a canister of liquid nitrogen to die by suicide through inert gas asphyxiation.
In 2007, Dignitas launched an effort to gain legal permission for healthy foreigners, including married couples with suicide pacts, to end their lives in Switzerland. [13] In July 2009, British conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife Joan died together at a suicide clinic outside Zürich "under circumstances of their own choosing." Sir Edward ...
Exit International developed a suicide capsule called Sarco, which was used the first time in 2024 in Switzerland. [ 10 ] On September 30, 2024 Exit International's Haarlem offices were raided by Dutch police, in connection with an investigation by Swiss authorities after Nitschke's Sarco Pod was used for the first time.
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