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Dignitas insists it turns down some who are not terminally ill or who display signs of instability.
A Dignitas official and nurse arrange to meet them at the place they have chosen to commit suicide.
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Here in the USA, a Nursing licensure can be obtained with as little as a 2-year Community College degree; I'm not sure what the Swiss standards are.
"I apologize for that traffic violation officer, I was just in such a hurry to die I was distracted. Go ahead and write that ticket, but I'm afraid I won't be around to pay"
Death Ping
Seriously though. Argentina was way ahead of these guys. During the dirty war many lefties were "suicided". Unfortunately the government gave way before they could complete their work.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The client drives themselves or is driven by family to the meeting point.
Just what we want, end-stage cancer patients wheeling their roadsters around the city trying to make one final appointment.
The weird part about it all is that there is a different form of suicide that is far less objectionable, in fact, is almost laudable. It’s called “A trip to rural Mexico”.
The purpose is to escape the twisted machinations of doctors, government and technology to extend life beyond where it should naturally end, followed by the grotesque games played with one’s Earthly remains after death.
There are hundreds of small, rural towns in Mexico, where for a small fee one can reside in their final days, and be buried with honor and respect in a polite funeral, once death has visited. Not suicide in the usual sense, just being in a place where death is about, to be found in a sip of water, a breath of air, or just about, sooner or later.
Perhaps a friendly Priest or Reverend to minister to you in your final days, to help you recapture your faith, surrounded by people unafraid of life, and thoughtful to their elders, happy to tend to your needs like you were a relative, a tradition in such places.
And you can repay their kindness with a small stipend, that may improve their lives, perhaps buy their children new shoes for their small feet, or some extra rice and beans for a while. Perhaps much more for the favor.
It will not change the world, but it might give some peace to a troubled spirit, tired and sick of Deux ex machina, the refusal to permit others a harmonious passing from the cacophony of life, and the morbid curiosity of those who ritually defile the dead as a strange entertainment, and for great sums of money.
For in passing itself, is it not to seek the peace that passeth understanding?
That to me is sick.
This scares me just because of all the people who come to my house with the wrong address.
Dignitas ping....
Sick. Moral Absolutes Ping!
Business should be good since they have National health care.
Do they sell gift certificates?