Several years back the clinic that helps people with assisted suicide got into trouble for disposing of people’s ashes in Lake Zurich, Switzerland. This then started a lot of commotion and five years on the state moved to prevent this practise. Dignitas fought this saying that it was an unfair restriction of trade. However, the […]
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Switzerland – scattering ashes in the river Ruess at Lucerne
I do like it when I can report another place to scatter and this is the first I have found in Switzerland, authorities in the city of Lucerne have announced that Hindu funeral rites will be officially permitted on the river Ruess. These ceremonies were previously unofficial, but after an environmental study gave the ‘thumbs […]
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Dignitas dump ashes illegally – no irony there then!
The Swiss euthanasia clinic has caught dumping urns containing ashes of it clients at the bottom of lake Zurich. I find it hard to comprehend that a company whose principle reason for being – to give people a dignified exist, then dumps the cremated remains illegally – what is going on? Where is the […]
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