The group Dignitas said Monday that its founder – who established the controversial assisted-suicide organisation – had ended his own life.
Ludwig Minelli, a onetime journalist and lawyer, died on November 29 through what Dignitas referred to as “voluntary assisted dying.”
The Zurich-based pro-euthanasia organisation, founded by Minelli in 1998 to help individuals end their lives “on their own terms,” offered no additional information regarding the circumstances of his death.
Dignitas, one of Switzerland’s most prominent assisted suicide groups, claims to have killed roughly 4,000 people from Switzerland and abroad since its founding. In a statement after Mr Minelli’s passing, the group vowed to keep going: “The Dignitas team will continue to manage and develop the association in the spirit of its founder as a professional and combative international organization for self-determination and freedom of choice in life and at the end of life.”
According to Life News, there has been a staggering 824.6% increase in assisted suicides among Swiss residents over the past two decades, rising from 187 cases in 2003 to a record 1,729 in 2023.