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Dignitas Clinic

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Dignitas Clinic
An assisted suicide group in Switzerland that helps persons with terminal illness and certain physical and mental illnesses to die assisted by qualified doctors and allied health personnel, provided that they are of sound judgement, and the decision is made of their own free will, without any form of coercion, criteria required by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland


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Mr Douglas passed away in a Dignitas clinic in Zurich and, soon after, a published notice of the death stated Mr Douglas died "peacefully and with dignity, following an illness courageously borne".
Douglas told carers he was "going out for the day" before taking a taxi to catch a flight to Zurich, Switzerland, where he went to the controversial Dignitas clinic.
 
 
 
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