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Neighbours of Swiss suicide clinic complain as corpses clog up the lift
2006-06-04
The Swiss clinic where dozens of people have been helped to die, including British patients, has a new problem: the neighbours are complaining that they are fed up with bodies being taken out of the apartment block, where the clinic is located, in the communal lift. The group Dignitas, which has attracted controversy since it began to offer assisted suicide eight years ago, uses a flat in a building on the outskirts of Zurich. More than 40 British patients have ended their lives in the flat, where a doctor administers a lethal injection after correct legal procedures have been followed.

But residents of the apartment block say they have had enough of the bodies being taken down from the fourth floor in body bags in the lift. One resident, Gloria Sonny, 52, told the British Medical Journal: 'Almost every day the bodies of people who have chosen to kill themselves are taken down in the lift. It's horrid and I've had enough.'
Posted by:Fred

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Posted by: DMFD   2006-06-04 22:47  

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Posted by: Crinemp Crereth7192   2006-06-04 18:08  

#8  go for the liposuction, 5089. You can always change your mind later.
Posted by: 2b   2006-06-04 14:58  

#7  . . . a doctor administers a lethal injection after correct legal procedures have been followed.

Well, correct legal procedures--that makes it OK, right?
Posted by: Mike   2006-06-04 14:33  

#6  I think this clinic may solve most of my problems... I should give it a try... otherwise, I should opt for a liposuction, I'm not decided yet.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-06-04 12:52  

#5  Will they take an IOU?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-06-04 11:46  

#4  I'll bet they don't take checks.
Posted by: Fred   2006-06-04 11:11  

#3  Well, Europe has chosen to kill itself off. Just some members are doing it faster than the rest.
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-06-04 09:41  

#2  "Almost every day the bodies of people who have chosen to kill themselves are taken down in the lift. It's horrid and I've had enough"

I'd say. That would be 8 x 365 bodies? More than the Bagdad city morgue. And only 40 were British? Wonder if they take Visa or Amex?
Posted by: john   2006-06-04 07:31  

#1  Speechless.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-06-04 07:04  

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