Examination of Witnesses (Questions 2398
- 2399)
THURSDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2005
DR KLAUS
HOTZ, DR
GIANCARLO ZUCCO,
PROFESSOR CHRISTIAN
SCHWARZENEGGER and MS
SARAH J SUMMERS
LLB, EXIT
Q2398 Chairman: Good afternoon. It
would be very helpful if you could give us a description of the
structure of EXIT. I think I am right in saying that EXIT has
different organisations in the different parts of the Federation,
depending on whether it is the German area or the French area.
Is that right so far?
Dr Hotz: Mainly
we have EXIT in the German-speaking part. There Dr Zucco and I
are members. Then we have in the French-speaking part an EXIT
organisation and that was the first EXIT organisation in Switzerland.
Now we have a new organisation, DIGNITAS, which is probably the
one you know in England because people who travel from England
to Switzerland to commit assisted suicide come to DIGNITAS.
Q2399 Chairman: We have just come
from DIGNITAS .
Dr Hotz: Of course
we are rather critical of DIGNITAS. EXIT thinks it is working
more seriously and we are not making suicide tourists because
we think that is the wrong thing to do.
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