I’ve written about Dignitas, the Swiss organization that helps people end their lives. Now, Swiss authorities have uncovered an estimated 300 urns with ashes near the Dignitas facilities in Lake Geneva. From the Daily Mail: The urns were discovered by chance when divers from a rescue service were looking for a lost sunshade from one… [Read more…]
February 18, 2010
A shocking story. A revered BBC journalist admitted–on TV!–to having killed his former lover who was in the hospital dying of AIDS. Time magazine writes, Ray “Gosling, an award-winning journalist whose rumpled persona has endeared him to generations of viewers, went on to recount “a hot afternoon” when he smothered the unknown man in his… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
The Atlantic profiles Ludwig Minelli, founder of Dignitas. Dignitas’s slogan is “To live with dignity, to die with dignity,” and for 12 years the group has been serving cocktails of sodium pentobarbital, a highly lethal barbiturate, to clients from around the world. During that time, Ludwig Minelli has helped more than a thousand people kill… [Read more…]
April 29, 2010
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