{"id":3906,"date":"2020-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/press-release-by-dignitas-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:01:36","slug":"review-of-the-year-2019-and-outlook-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/review-of-the-year-2019-and-outlook-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the year 2019 and outlook for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2019, general advisory work and suicide attempt prevention remained an important part of the activities of the non-profit member society D<span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">IGNITAS<\/span> \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity. In the frame of its national and international legal and political efforts, D<span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">IGNITAS<\/span> wrote several submissions for political consultations and initiated, supported and accompanied court cases as well as political advances. In 2019, the number of members continued to grow and reached 9,822. Still fewer than 3% of all D<span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">IGNITAS<\/span> members make use of an accompanied suicide; 256 individuals in 2019. In 2020, D<span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">IGNITAS<\/span> will continue to engage in quality of life until the end, self-determination and real freedom of choice, combined with individual responsibility and advance planning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/medienmitteilung-29012020-e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">media release (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, general advisory work and suicide attempt prevention remained an important part of the activities of the non-profit member society DIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity. In the frame of its national and international legal and political efforts, DIGNITAS wrote several submissions for political consultations and initiated, supported and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[540,499],"class_list":["post-3906","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\/3906","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=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}