dignitas
1
9.9
- proper noun
- Despite this, there have been no prosecutions of anyone who accompanied the 100 or so Britons who have died at the Swiss assisted-suicide clinic run by Dignitas.
- Dignitas euthanasia clinic
Examples
-
Does the state pretend to deny him this right merely because he might use it to avail himself of the services of Dignitas?
Blog text (8) -
On September 26, 2006, my husband, Craig Ewert, attended the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland and peacefully ended his struggle with ALS.
-
She was worried that if her husband helped her travel to Dignitas, he would be prosecuted after her death.
Academic text (2009) -
The people who thus far have made the harrowing trip to Dignitas in Switzerland to die seemed to me to be very firm and methodical of purpose, with a clear prima facie case for wanting their death to be on their own terms.
Blog text (7) -
Reiterating what was written in 1987, Dignitas personae once again honored the "unconditional respect owed to every being at every moment of his or her existence, and the defense of the specific character of the personal act which transmits life."
Blog text (18) -
Therefore, Dignitas personae states that "it is ethically unacceptable to dissociate procreation from the integrally personal context of the conjugal act."
Blog text (18) -
Purdy demanded to know if her husband would be prosecuted if he helped her travel to the Dignitas euthanasia clinic in Switzerland to commit suicide.
-
Ludwig Minelli, a human rights lawyer, founded Dignitas as an alternative to other assisted suicide groups in Switzerland.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dignitas uses the Latin dignus 'worthy' and the English word dignity as its name. A helpful way to remember this Swiss group is that it aims to help people keep control and 'dignity' at the end of life, so the name points to preserving a person's worth and respect.