Comment by antegamisou 3 days ago
Euthanasia in Switzerland ^ has been a notorious profitable practice for years, compared to the Netherlands where it's almost exclusively practiced on those with terminal debilitating disease.
^ Yes, it's "illegal" but it's effectively nulled if the means to it are made legal.
Why does one have to pay an extraordinary amount for it then? Does all money go to the facilities and the staff? (which mind you by law isn't mandated to consist of physicians)
Again:
Yes, it's "illegal" but it's effectively nulled if the means to it are made legal.
> Why does one have to pay an extraordinary amount for it then?
I don't know what you mean by "an extraordinary amount." It's about $10,000, which covers multiple consultations, medical assessments, interactions with the government, the nonprofit's operational costs, and so on.
Then I do wonder why no company has come knocking to the door of the hospital room where I'm sitting right this minute waiting for my terminally ill mother to die. Because since years she's member of EXIT, the well-known Swiss institution that is providing assisted suicide services, and it would still take several weeks for us to jump through all the required paper and legal hoops to get the ball rolling. And now she being already unconcious and therefore incapable, most ways are blocked already, as others pointed out, so I'm not sure we could accelerate the process at all.
Sorry, but your comment smells rather about peddling fakery, especially as you have provided heaps of reliable references.
It is illegal to profit from assisted suicide in Switzerland. All organizations that are involved in assisted suicide are nonprofits.
Every assisted suicide is then investigated by the police to ensure no profit motives exist.