Wife critical of journalist husband’s trip to Swiss suicide clinic

By Michael Cook The journalist wife of a Sky News journalist has written a memoir chronicling her reaction to her husband’s one-way trip to a Swiss suicide clinic. Deborah Binner is bitterly critical of the decision her spouse Simon made to seek assisted suicide after being stricken with a fast-moving form of motor neurone disease. …

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1701 Have Died at Swiss Suicide Clinic

  By Wesley J. Smith Switzerland is Jack Kevorkian as a country. It permits suicide clinics to which people travel from all over the world to be made dead. This has come to be known by the term “suicide tourism.” Dignitas is the best known–but certainly not the only–suicide clinic in Switzerland. It has now …

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Swiss Suicide case is only part of the assisted suicide debate.

By Alex Schadenberg, executive director Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The media is promoting the sad story of Susan Griffiths, a Winnipeg Manitoba woman who decided to die at the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland. Griffiths has Multiple System Atrophy, a condition that will leave her significantly disabled before she dies. I understand the feelings that Griffiths …

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