A SWISS hospital will allow terminally ill patients to commit suicide within its walls, becoming the first in the country to allow the practice. The university hospital in Lausanne had previously sent patients wishing to die home, where they could call on one of the country's assisted suicide organisations to help them take their lives. The hospital has decided to allow such organisations access from next year to patients who are so ill they cannot be transported to their homes, but will not itself help people take their lives. "We're not asking our doctors to assist ... suicide, but we...
