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| Subject: Nitschke's death clinic on agenda for Fiji Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:43 am | |
| THE Fijian government is considering a proposal to open an assisted-suicide clinic where seriously ill Australians and others could go to die.
The Australian euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke has proposed a ''hastened death service'' in Nandi which would operate like the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, where about 1000 foreigners have died since 1998.
While a handful of European countries and two US states have legalised euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide, the Dignitas clinic is the only one in the world that allows foreigners to use its service.
In a proposal sent to Fiji's Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Dr Nitschke said the developing country could generate ''considerable income'' from a clinic.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/nitschkes-death-clinic-on-agenda-for-fiji-20120823-24p2b.html#ixzz24R4BfOo7
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