Zurich votes on ‘suicide tourism’ laws
The Swiss usually like to be open to most things (apart from minarets). Assisted suicide is one of those “most things.”
They just don’t like it when everyone else starts to visit the country just to die.
Voters in the Swiss city of Zurich are voting on two proposals related to assisted suicide.
The first, to introduce a complete ban on the practice, looks set to be defeated.
But the second, which proposes limiting assisted suicide to Zurich residents only, could get more support.
The Swiss are uneasy that so many foreign citizens are coming to Switzerland because assisted suicide remains illegal in their own countries.