1. Death Tourism

2. Content Death tourists What is assisted suicide? Dignitas Regulations
Ethical aspects
Content

3. «Death tourists are terminally ill or suffering from neurological disorders from across the world who travel to countries with legalised assisted suicide so that they may commit suicide without commiting a crime.»
Death tourists

4. What is assisted suicide?
Long process
self-determined
Concerned person takes lethal drugs by himself
What is assisted suicide?

5. Dignitas Zürich Founded 1998 by a lawyer Assisted dying organisation
Big Business (10,000 CHF)
Germans
British
Dignitas

6. 2004 the government tried to put following regulations in place:
Swiss resident for at least 6 months
Incurable illness
2011 following referendum got rejected:
Ban assisted suicide
Need for swiss resident
Regulations

7. «constant and unbearable physical or mental suffering that cannot be alleviated»
Euthanasia: Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands
In Switzerland final step taken by patient
Is it an ethical business?
Ethical aspects