The Swiss canton frees suicide tourism from police investigations

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Switzerland is the worldwide suicide tourism capital. In fact, they can be helped at the transport price and about 11,000 US dollars to get dead in one of the notorious suicide clinics in the country.

The assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland if it is not carried out for a “selfish” purpose and if the soon dead person has decision capacity. (Why it is not considered “selfish” to calculate more than 10,000 US dollars to make a dead man is not considered “selfish”, because it is certainly not altruistic!)

In the past, every assistant suicide was at least fleetingly examined by the authorities. But now this minimal protection has been gutted in a canton and the costs for what remains of the supervision has been passed on to the suicide -deceased. Of the Swissinfo.ch Story:

The camera image shows a person lying on a bed. You reach a drop and open a valve. The fatal dose of sodium pentobarbital flows into her blood immediately.

Such videos are the core of an agreement that is unprecedented in Switzerland and was signed between Canton Solothurn and the legal organization Pegasos at the end of last year. If Pegasos, according to the new agreement, presents video evidence that the suicide was carried out by the person itself and additional information, the authorities do not send a legal and medical team to examine death.

Instead of a complete examination, the body is briefly examined at a medical institute:

This reduces the costs of the aftermath examination to between CHF 1,000 and CHF 2,000 and CHF 2,000. In addition, the invoice is paid for by the organization of the right to the death, and therefore ultimately from the person who wanted to die.

The taxpayer's money is considered essential, since the number of assisted suicide will increase dramatically in the next ten years:

Lately over 1,700 Swiss residents have committed suicide a year. In addition, over 500 people travel from abroad to Switzerland every year. And the demand is increasing: Observers expect the number of assisted suicide in Switzerland to be doubled by 2035.

We live in nihilistic times in the West, in which suicide is increasingly fatal support, and the steps are continuously facilitated in order to facilitate death under constantly less supervised squads. If we do not change our cultural course, we will finally achieve the final goal: a fundamental right to death on request.