Growing queue to die: 800 Britons sign up with Swiss suicide clinic...

By Daniel Martin
01st June 2009

The number of Britons thinking of travelling to the Dignitas suicide clinic in Switzerland has almost reached 800.

The figure is ten times the level of seven years ago.

It emerged as former Cabinet minister Lord Falconer launched a bid to change the law to end the risk of prosecution for people who help relatives and friends travel abroad to die.

The 800 are people who have taken the first step to ending their lives by becoming members of the controversial clinic. the rest