The head of the Swiss right-to-die organization Dignitas decided to end his life through assisted death, the group said.
Dignitas said Ludwig Minelli, who founded the group in 1998, died on Saturday, days before his 93rd birthday.
Dignitas said it would “continue to manage and develop the Association in the spirit of its founder as a professional and militant international organization for self-determination and freedom of choice in life and at the end of life”.
Minelli, a lawyer by profession, faced several legal challenges and made several successful appeals to the Swiss Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Dignitas said their work has had a lasting impact on Swiss law, pointing to a 2011 ECHR ruling that recognized a person’s right to decide the manner and timing of the end of their life.
For example, Swiss law does not permit euthanasia, where a doctor or other person administers a lethal injection. But assisted dying – when a person who expresses a wish to die takes the lethal action themselves – has been legal for decades.
Unlike some similar organizations in Switzerland, Dignitas, which says it has more than 10,000 members, also offers its services to people living outside the country.
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