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(Swiss) Assisted suicide activist speaks out on debate
Two high-profile cases of assisted suicide involving people in Britain have once again revived debate over the right to a dignified death.
Swiss surgeon Jérôme Sobel, president of the Swiss assisted suicide organisation Exit, talks to swissinfo about the realities of assisted death in Switzerland and Europe.
Craig Ewert, a 59-year-old motor neurone disease sufferer from Harrogate, Britain, died in Switzerland in 2006, having been helped by the controversial charity Dignitas. Last week television channel Sky News caused controversy when it showed a documentary of the last moments of the computer science professor's life.
The film was shown during the same week that a British coroner ruled that Daniel James, 23, a young rugby player who became paralysed from the neck down, intended to end his own life when he visited an assisted-dying clinic in Switzerland earlier this year.
The British Crown Prosecution Service announced it would take no action against James's parents for helping him. Mark and Julie James faced a maximum sentence of 14 years if they were tried under the Suicide Act.
Direct active euthanasia is taking specific steps to cause the patient's death, such as injecting the patient with drugs. Indirect active euthanasia is giving the patient a palliative that could lead to death.
Assisted suicide is when a doctor provides a patient with the means to end his own life; however, a doctor does not administer it...
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