{"id":6209,"date":"2024-06-26T15:52:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/dignitas-founding-an-assisted-dying-society\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:58:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:58:01","slug":"dignitas-founding-an-assisted-dying-society","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/dignitas-founding-an-assisted-dying-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1998, Dignitas \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity was set up in Switzerland by lawyer Ludwig A. Minelli. It was one of the first end-of-life organisation in the world to help foreigners \u2013 non-Swiss citizens \u2013 to die. Since then around 4,000 people from 65 different countries have ended their lives with help from the group. Ludwig Minelli tells Jane Wilkinson why he believes freedom of choice is so important.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w3ct5ypp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC World Service, \u201cWitness History\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1998, Dignitas \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity was set up in Switzerland by lawyer Ludwig A. Minelli. It was one of the first end-of-life organisation in the world to help foreigners \u2013 non-Swiss citizens \u2013 to die. Since then around 4,000 people from 65 different countries have ended their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[540],"class_list":["post-6209","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-dignitas-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6209","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=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}