Founder of Swiss Assisted-Suicide Outfit Dignitas Takes His Own Way Out—at 92

Well, this one practically writes itself.

Ludwig Minelli, the guy who spent decades insisting that "self-determination" means helping strangers kill themselves in a rented apartment outside Zurich, has now chosen the very service he built. Dignitas announced Monday that its 92-year-old founder died on November 29 by what it delicately calls "voluntary assisted dying," [aka: suicide] just six days shy of his 93rd birthday.

In its statement, the organization praised Minelli as a "pioneer and warrior" who "stood unwaveringly for his convictions when it came to the protection of fundamental rights and the freedom of citizens." Except that warriors don't kill themselves when they have the fight in front of them.

Dignitas promises to keep the lights on and the lethal barbiturates flowing: "The Dignitas team will continue to manage and develop the association in the spirit of its founder as a professional and combative international organization for self-determination and freedom of choice in life and at the end of life." [But especially when you decide it's the end of your life.]

Color me stunned that the guy who turned suicide into a Swiss cottage industry eventually decided to become his own best one-time customer.

Minelli founded Dignitas in 1998, and the group claims to have facilitated roughly 4,000 deaths since then. Meanwhile, assisted suicide numbers in Switzerland itself have exploded--an 824.6% increase among residents from 2003 (187 cases) to 2023 (1,729 cases), according to official data. That's not a trend; that's a rocket ride to the great beyond.

And who's riding it hardest are women and the very old. 

Women made up 59.92% of last year’s assisted suicides (1,036 out of 1,729), preserving a steady 3-to-2 edge over men for two decades. Among those 95 and older, 94.29% of all suicides from 2019–2023 were assisted. For the 85–94 crowd, the figure is 87.71%. When nine out of ten "suicides" in a demographic require an organization to hand you the cup, something has gone seriously wrong with how a society treats its elderly.

Pro-life observers aren’t mincing words. One typical reaction: "The apparently ever-increasing numbers of elderly people ending their lives through assisted suicide in Switzerland ought also to be deeply alarming for advocates and opponents of assisted suicide… It speaks to a profound cultural malaise that any culture would actively facilitate, and, to that extent, encourage its elderly population to end their lives by suicide."

Another called it straight: these are "deaths of despair" and "a form of abandonment of the elderly."

So the man who spent his life arguing that suicide is the ultimate expression of autonomy has now provided the ultimate object lesson. When even the high priest of the death clinic decides it's time to check out rather than endure another year of life, maybe, just maybe, that tells us something about the product he was selling.

File under: Be careful what you normalize. You might end up living, or not living, long enough to prove your critics right.

What a way to go.

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Some Swiss cities ban Koran

They call it the religion of peace, but some people call Hillary Clinton the most honest politician who ever lived. So call it whatever you want, while most Muslims aren't terrorists, most terrorists are Muslim. 

Now the land of chocolate and cheese with holes, Switzerland, is considering a ban on the distribution of the Koran, the Islamic scripture that is used to radicalize and proselytize on the streets of many Swiss cities.

Swiss authorities are being pressured to do something about the jihad problem after Germany raided 200 sites in a probe against "The True Religion," a Salafist group that has a problem with anyone who doesn't believe the same mumbo jumbo as they do.

In Germany, the group hands out its controversial program "Lies!" ("Read!" in English) which is a strict orthodox version of the Koran, and the group has been active in Switzerland as well over the last couple of years.

The German government has banned "The True Religion" saying it's unconstitutional and is "inciting hate." But Switzerland has no legal basis to ban groups, so officials are looking to a town that banned the group from handing out copies of the Koran.

The Swiss have not been able to stop Salafists from spreading their message of intolerance and hate throughout the country, except for the Aargau town of Brugg. Since 2012, the town refused permits for them to use public spaces to give out Korans.

Zurich's Director of Public Security, Mario Fehr, would like to see external experts look into the possibilities of banning, or at least limiting, [the "Lies!" campaign]. "We want to put an end to organizations that are close to jihadists and other promoters of violence," he said.

National Council member Lukas Reimann demands that authorities stop the "Lies!" campaign. "Germany is taking tough measures, Austria forbids foreign funding of Muslim groups and mosques. Only Switzerland is allowing [the Islamic\st group's activities]," he said. He demanded that not only should the Salafists be taken off the streets, but he wants them deported from the country, adding that cities should refuse grants to groups who want to give out Korans on the street.

In an effort to get around the Koran ban, a Muslim convert in Basel distributed copies of a biography of Muhammed, the pedophile prophet of Islam, and he also promoted free audiobooks to indoctrinate children.

In an effort to trick Western European infidels, a new German Salafist organization was formed to replace The True Religion. On Sunday, just two days before the Salafist group was banned, jihadists in Frankfurt were already handing out biographies of Mohammed and telling the public to download the group's new smartphone app.

The biography distribution was organized by Bilal Gumus, the chief organizer of "Lies!". The now-banned campaign was linked to terrorist groups, and several of their scumcrumpets involved with the project went to Syria to join ISIS and other jihadist terrorist groups.

Austria's foreign minister accused the far left Socialist party of blocking a bill that would put a stop to the terror indoctrination. The proposed integration bill also contained other provisions, such as including a ban of the full-face veil (known as a niqab) and a community work program for migrants granted asylum. 

Putting your national security trust in the hands of the left is like giving the keys to the hen house to a wolf.



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The Swiss are as angry as hell and aren't going to take it anymore

Swiss authorities have been denying citizenship to anyone (read "Muslims") who chooses not to assimilate with the Swiss culture. Most recently, the government rejected the naturalization application of two Muslim sisters who refused to take required swimming lessons at school because boys would be present in the pool.

In Islamic countries, being around males without being put in a cloth sack invites rape. It can even result of making females into sex slaves because Muslim men believe if a female is not totally covered, it means she is a whore and deserves to be sexually abused (see Cologne, Germany).

The girls, whose names were not revealed, are ages 12 and 14 and live in the city of Basel. They had applied for citizenship several months ago but their requests were denied according to a Swiss media report.

The girls said their religion prevents them from being in the same swimming pool along with boys, even Swiss boys. 

The swimming class is compulsory and their naturalization applications were rejected because the sisters didn't comply with the school curriculum, as per the Basel authorities.

"Whoever doesn't fulfill these conditions violates the law and therefore cannot be naturalized," said Stefan Wehrle, the president of the naturalization committee who spoke on SRF TV.

"It isn't like we can go into say, Saudi Arabia, with a Bible or religious Christian article. Heck, even Jews are forbidden to even enter the country. But they always want to have it their way," said Lars Lars, a professional bystander, who spoke without being asked.

This case illustrates how those who refuse to follow Swiss rules and customs will not become Swiss citizens, even if they've lived in Switzerland for a long time and even if they're fluent in one of the national languages: German, French or Italian. "Heck, they cannot even get their citizenship if they're gainfully employed," said Lars.

Just this past April, an immigrant family in the Basel area were denied citizenship because they wore sweatpants around town and did not greet passersby--a certain sign that they weren't sufficiently assimilated, the naturalization board claimed . . . seriously.

Another case was when two Muslim brothers refused to shake hands with their female teacher, also citing religious restrictions from the religion that is so sexually suppressed that they get promised virgins in the afterlife. And booze.

Shaking hands with a teacher is a common practice in Swiss schools.

Killing female teachers and female students is a common practice by ISIS and other orthodox Islamic organizations.

The sisters swimming case is the first to deny naturalization applications for not complying with a school program, which sets a precedence for future cases and hopefully will stem the tide of Sharia being forced down the throats of the Swiss.

Unlike the United States and other countries, in Switzerland integration into society is more important for naturalization than historical knowledge of the country or politics. People applying for citizenship in Switzerland actually have to demonstrate that they want to be well assimilated and not wanting to change the country that is hosting them. 

Now that's refreshing.


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