About 'one person a fortnight' travels from Britain to
the Swiss Dignitas to choose assisted dying at Swiss clinics. The Dignity in
Dying campaign group hope that the UK government would consider legal changes
regarding assisted dying after seeing the figures.
Their information reveals that about 292 Britons have
gone to Dignitas from 2002. About 57 Britons who came to Dignitas had come from
the Greater London Area.
According to 68-year-old Bob Cole, who had an
interview with the press regarding his decision to go to Dignitas:
“There are some of us who think we have come to the
end of a useful, justifiable life and want our dignity and quality, and surely
there is no wrong in saying, ‘Well, that’s it, I’ve done everything I wanted to
do, I won’t be able to do anything that is worthwhile’,” he said. “And I know
people will argue with me, so therefore I want to end my life now, and that
will end in the next few weeks.”
Cole is suffering from mesothelioma, a lung cancer
caused by asbestos inhalation. He had inhaled the disease when he was an
apprentice carpenter in the 1960s.
He is also the first person to publicly speak about ending
his life before he entered dignitas to end his life.
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