Switzerland’s deplorable ‘assisted dying’ regime

Switzerland’s deplorable ‘assisted dying’ regime

News emerged this week of a woman, Maureen Slough, who recently travelled from Ireland to Switzerland to end her life through assisted suicide. Her family only learned of her death afterwards, leaving them devastated. The case further reveals the existence in Switzerland of what is sometimes called ‘suicide tourism’ whereby people travel there to avail of the country’s extremely permissive assisted suicide regime. Maureen Slough is not the only …