Thanks God (and Allah for the Swiss. (and the Dutch) if Allah did not want assisted suicide to exist he would not have made Switzerland. So wake up everyone - get with God's program and please change your laws to the compassionate view that Jesus Allah support,
Larry T, marin county CA.

Larry, Mill Valley, USA

I'm terrified by reading the experience of people who know what happens in hell (because they visited?) if you commit suicide, or by people telling that life is more important than suffering etc... In these feedback, I never read compassion or understanding of suffering people - only judgement.

Thierry, Brussels, Belgium

Its very simple.....Your life was given to you by God and so therefore it is not yours to take.

Doesn't matter how much you suffer because nothing will compare to the amount you will suffer in hell for killing yourself.

Adam, dubai, UAE

I have M.S. and it is very nasty now. Six months in hospital and near death. But a very tiny, strong place inside me loves life and I said....o.k. you win.

marion, niton, england

A terminally ill person speeding his departure with a few too many drugs is a long way from this situation. Here you had a young man who was not terminally ill. Who knows what type of advances in science may have helped him. If they find a cure in a year what will his parent's think then?

Bill, Baltimore, USA

There should be no need for organisations like Dignitas.
All terminally ill people who wish to end their lives should be given all the help they need in their own country.
It is a disgrace that people are being allowed to suffer terrible pain, and die in agony, in a so called civilized society.

Michael Rigby, blackburn,

Chris. I have nursed children and adults with no bladder/limb control. Who have ulcers surrounding mouths which cannot masticate properly and very limited ability to communicate. It is terrible. But their lives are heroic and precious. The law should protect them, not leave them vulnerable.

Simon, Birmingham, Britain

I don't comment on the law. but my biggest respect to the rugby player for his courage and decision. I do not blame it. From being an active man to become paraplegic form chest down is the worst thing could never happen. Better die than living like a lettuce.

marco, London,

This is not the wider issue of whether suicide is morally acceptable but whether the law should allow it. It should not. Any perceived benefit would be greatly outweighed by the potential for harm. It is precisely those vulnerable to suicide which the law must protect- from others & even themselves.

Simon, Birmingham, Britain

Why is it not all right to let someone end their own life? I can't see why it's confusing. Your life, your choice.

Sascha, London,

Suicide is not a crime! Assisting someone to do something that is NOT a crime is in itself a crime. Can anyone think up a more perverse situation? because I can't.
Were I in the position of having a terminal, painful and debilitating condition, I would unquestionably consider termination.

M. Cawdery, Portadown, Co. UK, EU(thanks to Brown)

It is not alright to let people have the right to end their own life if they want to. The tragic suicides of a number of teenagers that have been highlighted in the news recently should surely evidence the fallacy of this argument.

Mark, Walkington, UK

We should be focused on the wishes of the individual and once it can be ascertained that they really do choose to die, and are not being forced into a corner, then those who are willing to provide the means of escape should be allowed to act without fear of repercussion. I know I'd like a choice !

Mal, London, UK

Who are we to say whether our lives have value or not. If we expect everything to be tidied up and to have total control, what about those whose lives are inconvenient: the severely disabled, the demented, the mad and the bad?

Sue, Oxford,

If you can prove that you have an incurable terminal illness that is progressing leaving you severly desabled and in need of assistance from others to survive and sustain your life and no viable cure available then you should have the freedom to choose the services Dignitas offer.

theo, London, UK

Humans should have the right to decide whether they live or not. It's ridiculous that law allows us to give dignity to our pets by putting them to sleep when they begin to suffer too much, yet demands that humans live on until the bitter end with no ounce of dignity left.....lunatics

katie, London, UK

Hi
More than 100 Britons have travelled to Switzerland to make use of laws that allow assisted suicide. Dignitas the institution that offers assisted suicide is coming under legal scrutiny in Switzerland. Strange stories have been told about them. That Switzerland is becoming a centre for death tourism is disturbing. The business aspects seem to be lucrative.

Regards Dr. Terence Hale

Terence Hale, zandvoort, Holland

Good for Dignitas!! Why should people have to suffer needlessly because of some stupid, moronic British law? If people want to end their lives, let them, and with the assistance of a loved one if they want to. Follow the Swiss example, and while you're at it, get them to run our railways as well!

Harry, London, UK

Paul - you need to nurse a progressive m.s. sufferer you would change your mind. This is not a suitable amount of suffering - this is a living nightmare- pure hell. Cannot even swallow your saliva because you will choke to death, cannot taste food certainly would cause death, double incontinence....

chris, s'bury,

thank God for the existence of Dignitas. it should be remembered, whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, that Dignitas deals with cases of terminal unbearable physical(not psychological)suffering. i guess the logic behind this is that psychological suffering is judged not to be insurmountable?

Marco, Kraków, Poland

Perhaps a more realisitc approach is to change the doctors oaths to allow euthanasia if specific requirements are meant; if the sufferer is shown to be willing with oral or previously written consent.

Cerys Gibson, Llanfairfechan, Wales

Suicide was decriminalised in 1961; it is only assisting a suicide that remains a criminal offence.

I am sad to say that the case is unlikely to change anything. The courts have made it clear that they are decidedly unwilling to interfere with public policy in this area.

David, Edinburgh, Scotland

Gladly my wife does not need their services but if she did and had made her decision to use them, I would support her to the end. The law would come a very poor second where my commitment to my wife is concerned and I would expect no less from all in that position.

mike gee, bournemouth, uk

The fact that suicide is a crime implies that the state believes that it owns your body, and by implication has the same rights as God, and by implication the State believes that it is God!

Delusions of grandeur perhaps...

peterj, aberdeen, UK

I have requested this service twice and been refused but still they send invoices begging me to contribute to their funds at Dignitas, I won;t pay them until they promise to help me die alone with just thheir nurses to support me, in return I would pay tens of thousands of pounds for the service.

Contax, Brigg, England

Don't the Swiss realise that our purpose in life is to atone for our original sin? And that once we have done this, by a suitable amount of suffering, we can all have a jolly good time in heaven!

Paul Neri, Canberra, Australia