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Terminally ill Britons now make up a nearly one quarter of users of suicide clinics like Dignitas in Switzerland, new figures have shown.
Only Germany has a higher numbers of ‘suicide tourists’ visiting institutions to end their own lives.
Between 2008 and 2012, 126 Britons chose to die in Zurich, the majority at Dignitas, and a handful via less well known clinics, like Exit.
In 2012, 29 people from the UK travelled to Switzerland to end their own lives, the highest number ever and around one per fortnight.
Experts from the University of Zurich used data from the Zurich Institute of Legal Medicine and the figures were analysed by Oxford University.
They found that the number of people travelling to Switzerland to take their own lives had risen by 40 per cent in four years. In 2008 there
Terminally ill Britons now make up a nearly one quarter of users of suicide clinics like Dignitas in Switzerland, new figures have shown.
Only Germany has a higher numbers of ‘suicide tourists’ visiting institutions to end their own lives.
Between 2008 and 2012, 126 Britons chose to die in Zurich, the majority at Dignitas, and a handful via less well known clinics, like Exit.
In 2012, 29 people from the UK travelled to Switzerland to end their own lives, the highest number ever and around one per fortnight.
Experts from the University of Zurich used data from the Zurich Institute of Legal Medicine and the figures were analysed by Oxford University.
They found that the number of people travelling to Switzerland to take their own lives had risen by 40 per cent in four years. In 2008 there