DIGNITAS
October 2012
The Swiss euthanasia clinic claims to respect its patients' dignity, but secularism alone cannot confer moral value on human life
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March 2010
Campaigners to legalise assisted suicide invoke the principle of arbitrary autonomy. This threatens to give us a radically libertarian society at the expense of a humane one
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March 2010
The music world is reeling today from the news that the eminent British conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife Lady Joan have ended their lives together at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich. Sir Edward - who was always known as Ted - was 85 and had
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June 2009
Dignitas' new scheme is based on the misconception that mental illness is a terminal illness
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