SWITZERLAND: Assisted suicide increasingly popular in Switzerland

In 2015, 965 Swiss residents used assisted suicide services in Switzerland, according to the latest figures from the Swiss statistics office. That’s up from 742 the year before and a remarkable rise on the year 2000 when only 86 people resorted to assisted suicide. Read more >>

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NETHERLANDS: ‘Any taboo has gone’: Netherlands sees rise in demand for euthanasia

The number of people euthanised in the Netherlands this year is set to exceed 7,000 – a 67% rise from five years ago – in what has been described by the director of the country’s only specialist clinic as the end of “a taboo” on killing patients who want to die. Read more >>

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