Assisted suicide set to be legalised

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 14 April 2011 22:09

"A Swiss region is poised to give old people in state-subsidised care homes the right to die via assisted suicide if that is their wish.

The assisted suicide organisation Exit, which already helps terminally ill patients in a number of nursing homes, forced a poll on the issue in Vaud – a Swiss first - back in 2009 and garnered the required number of signatures to make it law.

Now there will be one more referendum to decide if the local government's proposals, which slightly water down the Exit plans, become law."