Assisted Suicide: Elderly couple end their lives at a Swiss clinic
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The assisted suicides of an elderly British couple at a Swiss clinic rekindled the fierce debate Friday over whether Britain should modify its laws to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with a doctor’s help.A neighbor in the city of Bath, where Peter and Penelope Duff lived, said they were suffering from advanced stages of cancer.
“They were so close and they both had this dread disease and they would not have wanted to live on without the other,” said David Keeling, who saw the couple over the Christmas holidays.
“They were not looking well,” he said. “Peter was an extremely organized man and I believe he had this all organized at that time.”
Ludwig Minelli, director of the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, said Friday that Peter Duff, 80, and his 70-year-old wife died on Feb. 27, becoming the second British couple to have ended their lives at the clinic.
He said the clinic was operating within Swiss federal law that gives people “the right to decide for themselves where and when they want to die.”
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