Living can be brutal. The other Dignitas customer in the programme \u201d\u201d not filmed dying, but discussed up to the final handshake \u201d\u201d is a 42-year-old man who tried suicide twice, failed, and took the journey to certainty. Again, earlier than he truly needed to. The window of opportunity, he saw clearly, would close as he travelled down \u201cthe narrowing alleyway\u201d\u009d of disability….<\/p>\n
The actual nature of the Dignitas experience….is grim. Even discounting the disgraceful fact that 21 per cent of its customers don\u2019t have a terminal disease but depression, and that the Swiss authorities seem unwilling to intervene, there is something horrible \u201d\u201d a condemned-cell atmosphere \u201d\u201d about the process: the files, the signatures, the insistence that you practise drinking the stuff in one long draught \u201cand do not sip\u201d\u009d, the dreary environs, the anti-nausea drug taken beforehand so that Mr [Peter] Smedley observes how odd it is to be told \u201cten minutes more\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n
Read it all (requires London Times subscription)<\/a> and you may find a lot more articles on this there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Living can be brutal. The other Dignitas customer in the programme \u201d\u201d not filmed dying, but discussed up to the final handshake \u201d\u201d is a 42-year-old man who tried suicide twice, failed, and took the journey to certainty. Again, earlier…<\/span><\/p>\n