Terminally ill foreigners who wish to end his life in Switzerland will continue to find assistance to do so. Thus, it has decided 80% of the inhabitants of the canton of Zurich in a vote prompted by two Christian right-wing parties, which also sought to prohibit the death with dignity to any resident of another county.
Also, a second popular initiative, calling a total ban on assisted suicide in Switzerland everything has been rejected even more strongly: 85% of citizens have been spoken against. The truth is that the proposals of the Federal Democratic Union Party and the Evangelist, two formations minority had neither government support nor with any of the other political parties.
Both votes were of particular importance in the new law on assistance to suicide prepared by the Minister of Justice, Simonetta Sommaruga. Zurich is the most populous county (with nearly 15% of the population) and it was a good opportunity for the Swiss government to take the pulse of public opinion.
In recent years there have been several scandals involving the two organizations assisting suicide in Switzerland, especially Dignitas, the only one that accepts foreigners and that only works in Zurich. Last year we found 30 urns with ashes in the lake bottom of this city and a few months ago a study called into question the seriousness of the diseases some of the foreigners who came to the Alpine country to commit suicide.
For a decade, politicians and experts talk about the need to make assisted suicide law is more strict. However, there have been these past controversies that have led the Swiss government to take action on the matter. Helping someone to commit suicide is legal in Switzerland since 1941.
Each year, about 200 people seek help in killing themselves. Half of those who seek a dignified death are foreigners, mostly from Germany and Britain, where assisted suicide is severely punished. 
Also, a second popular initiative, calling a total ban on assisted suicide in Switzerland everything has been rejected even more strongly: 85% of citizens have been spoken against. The truth is that the proposals of the Federal Democratic Union Party and the Evangelist, two formations minority had neither government support nor with any of the other political parties.
Both votes were of particular importance in the new law on assistance to suicide prepared by the Minister of Justice, Simonetta Sommaruga. Zurich is the most populous county (with nearly 15% of the population) and it was a good opportunity for the Swiss government to take the pulse of public opinion.
In recent years there have been several scandals involving the two organizations assisting suicide in Switzerland, especially Dignitas, the only one that accepts foreigners and that only works in Zurich. Last year we found 30 urns with ashes in the lake bottom of this city and a few months ago a study called into question the seriousness of the diseases some of the foreigners who came to the Alpine country to commit suicide.
For a decade, politicians and experts talk about the need to make assisted suicide law is more strict. However, there have been these past controversies that have led the Swiss government to take action on the matter. Helping someone to commit suicide is legal in Switzerland since 1941.
Each year, about 200 people seek help in killing themselves. Half of those who seek a dignified death are foreigners, mostly from Germany and Britain, where assisted suicide is severely punished.
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