UK: Dozens admit aiding relatives commit suicide
Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health Editor
From The Sunday Times
November 11, 2007

MORE than 30 Britons have written statements confessing to helping friends or relatives to die at a Swiss euthanasia clinic as part of a test case to change the law.

Details of the admissions will be submitted to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) as part of a legal challenge by a woman suffering from a progressive form of multiple sclerosis.

She wants her husband to be allowed to accompany her to the Dignitas clinic in Zurich without the threat of prosecution and is seeking a statement from the DPP clarifying the law.

Debbie Purdy, 44, from Bradford, says that unless she gets a guarantee that her husband, Omar Puente, will not be prosecuted for helping her to travel to Switzerland to commit suicide, she will be forced to take her life sooner than she would like while she is still capable of travelling alone. the rest