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Giving up food, a way for some to give up on life

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    Le 12h45
  • 17 March 2018
  • Ralf Jürgen Jox
    • CHUV
    • Biologie et de médecine, UNIL
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While it's very much alive in German-speaking Switzerland, the debate on voluntary death remains more taboo in French-speaking Switzerland. Some people, already ill and weakened, see fasting as a way to shorten their suffering.

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