According to researchers over 600 people traveled to Switzerland to die between 2008 and 2012 with the numbers in this period to have doubled compared to the past.

Many of these people come from countries that have strict laws that prohibit the assisted voluntary death, says Dr. Saskia Gauthier of the Institute of Legal Medicine at the University of Zurich.

“While assisted suicide (euthanasia) is strictly limited in many countries, there is clearly a set to Swiss law. This imbalance leads to an influx of people called “suicide tourists” who come to Switzerland to die, “writes characteristically Gauthier in her Journal of Medical Ethics (Journal of Medical Ethics).

Gauthier also said that there are 611 recognized cases of people aged 23-97 years who came to Switzerland to organize their very death, with the help of some groups that advocate the “right to death” as the Dignitas …