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EXIT: choose your time

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Deciding the day of his death. Swallowing your dose of pentobarbital. In Switzerland, assisted suicide is less and less taboo. Associations dʹassistance au suicide have more and more members, and the number of assisted suicides is steadily increasing. EXIT, the leading association in French-speaking Switzerland, has grown from around 16,000 members in 2010 to almost 31,500 in 2020. While the pandemic does not seem to have any influence on these "chosen" deaths, the question of choosing one's end of life is becoming crucial. With important family, ethical and moral issues at stake. What does a "dignified" death mean?