{"id":3925,"date":"2017-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/press-release-by-dignitas-9\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:30:35","slug":"new-uk-legal-case-for-self-chosen-and-dignified-end-of-life","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/new-uk-legal-case-for-self-chosen-and-dignified-end-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"New UK legal case for self-chosen and dignified end of life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">DIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity are pleased to see a new legal challenge to change the law in the UK for access to a self-determined, accompanied, dignified end of suffering and life. The case, initiated by Omid T, an incurably ill man with Multiple System Atrophy, is led by Ms Saimo Chahal QC (Hon), partner at the law firm Bindmans LLP in London. DIGNITAS encourages everyone to support and help to fund the action by Omid. This can be done, for example, through the following website: <br><a aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.crowdjustice.org\/case\/dignified-death (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdjustice.org\/case\/dignified-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">https:\/\/www.crowdjustice.org\/case\/dignified-death<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/medienmitteilung-05042017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">media release (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity are pleased to see a new legal challenge to change the law in the UK for access to a self-determined, accompanied, dignified end of suffering and life. The case, initiated by Omid T, an incurably ill man with Multiple System Atrophy, is led by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[499,537],"class_list":["post-3925","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-media-release","tag-uk-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3925","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=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}