Exit (assistance with the suicide)
Exit is an association Suisse of assistance to the Suicide.
The assistance with the suicide being authorized in Switzerland, of associations were created to help the people whose life became a hell of pain. The people are followed a certain time by a guide before achieving the fatal act by absorbing an anesthetic drink.
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Exit is one of these associations whose president is Dr. Jerome Sobel.
Since December 18th, 2005, the university hospital of Lausanne, in Switzerland, authorizes the assisted suicides. This medical act is framed by strict conditions to make it possible to the patients in final phase to put an end, themselves, with their life, while being accompanied by doctors.
Article 115 of the Swiss Penal code punishes this act only for egoistic mobile
For incentive and assistance with the suicide:- “ That which, pushed by an egoistic mobile, will have encouraged a person with the suicide, or will have lent assistance for suicide to him, will be, if the suicide were consumed or tried, punished reclusion for five years with more or of the imprisonment. ”
Films relating to this subject
- Report, the choice of Jean, a television team followed the last three months of a man, Freiburg eois, reached of a brain tumor and which chose the assisted suicide.
- Given report
- Exit, right to die , film of Fernand Melgar
- Given on the film
External bonds
- Site of Exit
- Site of another association " Dignitas"