EXIT members rejected a proposal to stop its services at Swiss borders.
Keystone / Peter Komka
Swiss people living abroad will still be able to use the services of assisted suicide organisation EXIT after members rejected a proposal to restrict its activities to within Switzerland.
The organisation asked members if it should stop its services at Swiss borders. But according to the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper, it has shelved this idea after receiving too much negative feedback.
Switzerland’s other assisted suicide organisation, Dignitas, does not exclude offering its services abroad.
Swiss law tolerates assisted suicide when patients commit the act themselves and helpers have no vested interest in their death. Assisted suicide has been legal in the country since the 1940s.
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