ASSISTED SUICIDE IN SWITZERLAND: BEGINNING AND EVOLUTION

Abstract

The Swiss legislation on assisted suicide is relatively permissive, since just not having selfish motive allows to practice it.
There are however some medico-ethical directives that must
be respected and, above all, the person must be medically
competent at the time. There has been an evolution of the
ethical directives to assisted suicide, since they changed
from relatively restrictives indications (incurable disease
and end-of-life) to broader indications, such as de polypathologies due to aging