A map showing the areas where most people from the UK travel to die at Dignitas. Picture: Assisted Dying Coalition/Humanists UK
The new research also shows where UK residents have come from before having an assisted death at Dignitas, while UK members of the organisation have risen from 781 in 2010 to 1,528 in 2022. "Adults of sound mind, who are intolerably suffering from a physical, incurable condition deserve the freedom and right to have a dignified end-of-life choice on their own terms."
Currently, assisted dying is illegal in the UK, and anyone who is considered to have been involved in an assisted death could be prosecuted for murder or manslaughter.
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