Dignitas: offering companion suicides ...don't want to be alone, die with your ill spouse

 Great article points out how the owner of the suicide hotel is making a fortune off others illness and grieving.

 There’s a cushy living to be made out of assisted suicide. One man, Ludwig Minelli, is living proof of it: he is alleged to have done well out of his Dignitas clinic, where, for $10,000, someone who is terminally ill can be helped to die by their “loved one”.

The person who packs their bags for Dignitas (no need for a toothbrush: the whole procedure takes only a couple of hours) is likely to belong to the well-educated, articulate elite who are addicted to choice and who view assisted suicide as the ultimate consumer choice.They want to stage-manage their death as they have stage-managed every other aspect of their lives, from childbirth through marriage to divorce.

But the present law does have a big drawback. It prompts a certain elite to fly off to Zurich and line Ludwig Minelli’s pockets. That is a dismal prospect – all the more so now that he proposes to extend his clinic’s death services to the healthy partners accompanying their loved ones on their final journey. Perhaps he’ll make them a “two for the price of one” offer – but I wouldn’t count on it.