Protests greet opening of suicide advice office in Germany
By Clare Chapman in Hanover
(Filed: 02/10/2005)

A controversial Swiss clinic that helps terminally ill patients to die is extending its operations to Germany despite protests from doctors, politicians and the Church.

Dignitas says that under European Union law it is entitled to open offices offering help and advice on assisted suicide elsewhere in the EU. Since the clinic opened in Zurich in 1998, 453 people, including 253 Germans and about 84 Britons, have been injected with the drug sodium pentobarbital with the help of its staff.

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