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Swiss docs compare Dignitas to the Nazis
Controversial Swiss assisted suicide group Dignitas’s latest method to help
people kill themselves has been compared to Nazi extermination by Swiss
doctors.
Urs Stoffel, chairman of the Zurich doctors union, slammed
Dignitas’s new method of assisted suicide where plastic bags filled with helium
are placed over client's heads.
They eventually suffocate but videos of
the deaths recorded by Dignitas have reportedly shown people trembling for
minutes as they die.
Stoffel said: "If one of our members performs an
assisted suicide with the helium method, he or she can expect to stand trial.
Doctors who work for Dignitas may be excluded from the union.
"Bearing in
mind the Nazi methods of the Third Reich when people where systematically
murdered by gas, we cannot agree with what Dignitas is doing
nowadays."
Ludwig A. Minelli, head of Dignitas, admitted the use of the
helium filled bags could be distressing for relatives of the deceased.
He
said: "It's hard for the relatives because the person is shaking when this
method is used."
But he attacked public prosecutors for making news of
the new method public and said he feared some suicidal people would now try and
use helium-filled bags on their own to end their lives.
He said: "I
regret that the public prosecutor made the helium method public."
austriantimes.at
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elvis tye wrote on 13. 06. 2012 from singapore about "Swiss docs compare Dignit..."
how stupid and irrational for him to compare Dignitas to Nazi. Nazi's victims were forced to where patients went to Dignitas by volunteer and ' applying ' for it's service.
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