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Suicide clinic homeless

Swiss suicide group Dignitas is to become homeless after residents boycotted plans for it to set up a death flat in their town. 

The organisation will be forced to leave its current suicide house when the tenancy contract runs out in three weeks.

But plans to move to a new headquarters have been shelved after councillors in Wetzikon, near Zurich, refused to allow the sinister euthanasia organisation to move in.

Now campaigners fear that Dignitas may return to staging suicides in car parks and other public spaces while it hunts for a new base.

"If authorities boycott us, we cannot simply stop helping suffering people. And we have staff who need to be paid every month," said Dignitas boss Ludwig Minelli.

More than 800 Britons who want to end their own lives are currently registered with Dignitas.

Austrian Times

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