{"id":3899,"date":"2021-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/a-note-by-dignitas-6\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:30:29","slug":"review-of-the-year-2020-and-outlook-for-2021","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/review-of-the-year-2020-and-outlook-for-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the year 2020 and outlook for 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>The association\u2019s international legal work bears fruit; suicide attempt prevention remains at the core of the advisory work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/span>In 2020, the long-standing international legal commitment of the non-profit membership association \u201cDIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity\u201d led to encouraging court decisions in Germany and Austria in favour of the human right to decide on the manner and time of one\u2019s own end in life and to seek help of third parties for this. In the operational area, the comprehensive advisory work for individuals seeking help and suicide attempt prevention remained at the core of DIGNITAS&#8217; activities. In 2021, the association will continue to engage in work to ensure quality of life until the end, self-determination and real freedom of choice, combined with individual responsibility and advance planning \u2013 in Switzerland and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a style=\"text-align: justify;\" href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/medienmitteilung-08032021-e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media release (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The association\u2019s international legal work bears fruit; suicide attempt prevention remains at the core of the advisory work In 2020, the long-standing international legal commitment of the non-profit membership association \u201cDIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity\u201d led to encouraging court decisions in Germany and Austria in favour of the human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[540,499],"class_list":["post-3899","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-dignitas-en","tag-media-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}