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1.2 percent of all Swiss deaths were assisted suicides
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Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization
For Immediate Release:
Dateline: Junction City, OR
Saturday, September 2, 2017

 

DIGNITAS (Switzerland) newsletter for August 2017

According to the Swiss government’s deaths statistics, a mere 1.2 % of all deaths registered in 2014 were accompanied suicides.

DIGNITAS has calculated – based on the data published by the Swiss self-determination organizations – that also in the two subsequent years, the number of assisted suicides stayed below 1.5 %. The Swiss system of freedom of choice and self-responsibility in end-of-life questions has proved sensible for 35 years now.

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