This is a very short summary of the NEW YORK TIMES article of February 4, 2003

The full article is in the International Section, page A3

Dignitas is one of four groups that have taken advantage of Switzerland's 1942 law on euthanasia to help the terminally ill die.  Three of the four groups focus primarily on the terminally infirm in Switzerland.  Dignitas, however, has three-quarters of its member being non-Swiss residents.  Dignitas was founded by Ludwig Minelli, a journalist who became a lawyer and devoted his attention to Switzerland's oldest assisted suicide group, EXIT.  He started Dignitas in 1998 to help others to die with a dignity they cannot find in their own countries, which in Mr Minelli's opinion have "laws from the Middle Ages" on euthanasia. Mr. Minelli does not advertise except through Dignitas's web site -hit it for all the details     http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.dignitas.ch/&prev=/search%3Fq%3DDignitas%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG