A few weeks ago the
Asahi News on-line reported the following:
自殺ツーリスト、スイスに大挙 5年で600人
ジュネーブ=松尾一郎
2014年8月23日23時16分
末期のがん患者らの自殺を手助けするサービスを受けるためにスイスを訪れる外国人「自殺ツーリスト」が、2008年からの5年間で600人を超えたことがわかった。チューリヒ大などの研究グループが専門誌「医療倫理ジャーナル」(電子版)に発表した。
研究グループは、チューリヒの法医学研究所に残された外国人の検視記録を調査。自殺ツーリストを受け入れる支援組織との関係も考慮すると、08~12年に欧州を中心に計31カ国の611人が、スイスを訪れて死亡したと認定した。主な内訳はドイツ人268人、英国人126人、フランス人66人、イタリア人44人、米国人21人、オーストリア人14人で、日本人はいなかった。自殺方法は、鎮静作用のある麻酔薬のペントバルビタール・ナトリウムの投与がほとんどを占めた。
この検視記録が扱うのはチューリヒ市と周辺部の死者のみだが、研究グループによると、受け入れ先がこの地域に集中しているため、ほぼ全てのケースを網羅しているという。
(試譯文)
It turned out that the "suicide
tourist" foreigners, those terminally ill cancer patients who visited Switzerland
in order to receive help to commit suicide, had exceeded 600 people in five
years since 2008. Zurich University etc. research groups announced this to a
technical magazine the "Medical ethics journal" (electronic edition).
In Switzerland ,
medical workers were allowed to assist the terminally ill patients with suicide.
A research group had investigated the foreigner's inquest record
left behind to the forensic laboratory in Zurich .
When the relation with the aiding agency which accepted suicide tourists was
taken into consideration, it presumed that in 2008-12 among the visitors from a
total of 31 countries who made Europe as the center, 611 died in Switzerland . German
was the majority with 268 people, British 126 people, French 66, Italian 44, American
21, and 14 people from Austria .
There was no Japanese. As for the suicide method, using medication of sodium
pentobarbitone, an anesthetic drug with a sedative action was the majority.
According to the research group, although the death was only in Zurich and the
surrounding area, since the host institutions were concentrating in this region,
it was said that the inquest record covered almost all cases.
Although arguments had occurred in Switzerland about the right or
wrong in accepting suicide tourists, a referendum in 2011 asking abut the "prohibition
of assisted suicide to foreigners" held in the State of Zurich was voted
down.
It is shocking to note that "suicide tourism" was
systemically carried out in Switzerland .
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