Interviews & Discussions

26 June 2024

DIGNITAS: Founding an assisted dying society

In 1998, DIGNITAS – To live with dignity – To die with dignity was set up in Switzerland by lawyer Ludwig A. Minelli. It was one of the first end-of-life organisation in the world to help foreigners – non-Swiss citizens – to die. Since then around 4,000 people from 65 different countries have ended their lives with help from the group. Ludwig Minelli tells Jane Wilkinson why he believes freedom of choice is so important.

BBC World Service, “Witness History” (Link)

30 September 2023

Leeds Festival of Ideas LIFI23

How do we talk about grief?

Experienced universally but felt so uniquely, grief will find its way into our lives and affect us in ways sometimes impossible to articulate. Manifesting in all forms, shapes and sizes, why does grief often have the ability to get us a little tongue tied?

hosted by Dame Prue Leith (Link)

PROJECTING GRIEF Exhibition at LIFI23: We’re all going to go through grief. Let’s try to get better at talking about it. (Link)

29 April 2019

Interview of DIGNITAS with the South Korean news broadcaster YTN

Link to the interview on Youtube

28 April 2016

VI. Konference Neuropsychiatrického Fóra, Praha, Czechia

Interview by Vojtěch Berger Czech Radio Český rozhlas, Radiožurnál (Link)

Booklet to complement the speech of DIGNITAS (PDF)

Website of the Neuropsychiatrické Fórum (Link)

8 October 2011

"A human life - what's it worth?"

Contribution of DIGNITAS at the Battle of Ideas Satellite Debate in Zürich, 8 October 2011 (PDF)

3 February 2005

Minutes of the visit of a Delegation of the Select Committee on Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill to DIGNITAS – To live with dignity – To die with dignity (PDF)