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'Suicide tourism': creating misleading ‘scientific’ news
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Competing interests SL is an employee of DIGNITAS—To live with dignity—To die with dignity.
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↵i As can be seen with a simple web search-machine, using the words “suicide+tourism+doubled”.
↵ii There are 7 such institutes in Switzerland. http://www.sgrm.ch/allgemein/institute.html (accessed 2 Oct 2014).
↵iii Also pointed out by the ECHR in the case Gross v. Switzerland, in paragraph 65.
↵iv The Swiss Criminal Code came into force on 1 Jan 1942.
↵v See “Forschung auf Abwegen” including a press file, etc. http://www.dignitas.ch/index.php?lang=de (accessed 2 Oct 2014).
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