"A Dignitas doctor in Zurich reviewed the Peninous' case and agreed to write a prescription for sodium pentobarbital, the lethal drug typically used for assisted suicides ... They paid Dignitas its fee of ($10,500).
The suicides took place not in a private medical facility, but in an industrial space next to a large brothel ... just two spare rooms without a bathroom. He says two Dignitas volunteers, neither a doctor, helped prepare the couple. There was just one single bed, forcing Mr. Peninou to sit in a chair near his wife when the couple took the lethal dose."
I realize that this is a lot of quoting without much comment (so far), but please bear with me just a bit longer:
"[Ludwig Minelli, founder of Dignitas] argues that anyone�the chronically ill, the mentally ill or those who are simply tired of living�deserves help to end it all."
"Chronically" ill? "Tired of living?" These are legitimate, justifiable reasons to encourage folks to commit suicide?
Or are they, instead, a sales pitch for a few dollars worth of chemicals?
I know what I think.
The suicides took place not in a private medical facility, but in an industrial space next to a large brothel ... just two spare rooms without a bathroom. He says two Dignitas volunteers, neither a doctor, helped prepare the couple. There was just one single bed, forcing Mr. Peninou to sit in a chair near his wife when the couple took the lethal dose."
I realize that this is a lot of quoting without much comment (so far), but please bear with me just a bit longer:
"[Ludwig Minelli, founder of Dignitas] argues that anyone�the chronically ill, the mentally ill or those who are simply tired of living�deserves help to end it all."
"Chronically" ill? "Tired of living?" These are legitimate, justifiable reasons to encourage folks to commit suicide?
Or are they, instead, a sales pitch for a few dollars worth of chemicals?
I know what I think.
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