A Terminally Ill Man Will End His Life Today at a Clinic at 2pm

Bob Cole, 68, will end his own life at Dignitas suicide clinic at 2pm today, where his wife, Ann Hall, 67, ended her life last years through a lethal injection. After being diagnosed with cancer a month ago, Bob has decided to take his wife’s route and ‘die with dignity.’ He 'doesn't want to die painfully and slowly eating chocolate ice cream.' He was given three months to live and he feels that Britain should change the law and allow assisted death to willing persons. He has to travel to the Swiss clinic because he has 'no wish to die in pain without any dignity' and will end his own life while listening to Chris de Burgh's Here Is Your Paradise at 2pm today. 

HOW ASSISTED SUICIDE CLINIC IS RAKING IN £8,400 FOR EVERY DEATH

Ø  Swiss group Dignitas charges up to £8,400 to die at one of its centres.

Ø  Its 'members' pay £2,400 for the act of suicide by lethal drug dose, plus a further £2,400 for preparation costs and £800 for a compulsory consultation with a doctor.

Ø  Cremation adds another £1,600, while grieving relatives are charged £1,200 if they want Dignitas to deal with 'official procedures' in Switzerland after the death.

Ø  The total bill is payable in advance and does not include VAT, according to the group's own website.

Ø  Members also pay a one-off joining fee of £162 and a further annual fee of £65, all transferred into Dignitas's Swiss bank account.

Ø  The group, founded in 1998, operates as a non-profit organisation and does not have to make its finances public.

Ø  Its founder, lawyer Ludwig Minelli, has reportedly become a millionaire since it began, although he has strongly denied the claim. Dignitas says it has helped 1,170 of its members to die, of which around 300 have been British.

Ø  Critics say it risks sending a message that the lives of those with disabilities or chronic conditions are not worth living.

Ø  But the organisation says it provides an 'emergency exit door' for those suffering from a terminal illness, unbearable pain or 'unendurable disability'.

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