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...Vincent Minelli, director of the Zurich-based assisted-suicide group Dignitas, says that "if a new law is passed, the only thing it would accomplish is an increase in clandestine deaths and in the number of suicides in general." Unlike EXIT, whose membership is restricted to Swiss residents, at an annual fee of $27, Dignitas has sparked repeated controversy by helping people from abroad die in its clinic, including non-terminal cases like that of Dan James, a 23-year-old British rugby player who was paralyzed from the neck down and who ended his life in Zurich last year...
...Critics also say that, contrary to the law stipulating that assisted suicide should not be a profit-driven business, Dignitas is actively luring foreigners for financial gain. Minelli denies that any of the 1,027 patients he helped die since the group's founding in 1998 were recruited for profit, and while he charges about $7,000 per assisted suicide, he says the money covers only administrative costs and that poorer patients are charged a lower fee or nothing...
Some euthanasia activists, including Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli, believe in death on demand. "If you accept the idea of personal autonomy," he argues, "you can't make conditions that only terminally ill people should have this right." Autonomy and dignity are precious values; the phrase sanctity of life can sound sterile and pious in the face of profound pain and suffering. But Minelli is arguing for much more: that autonomy is an overriding right. This view rejects the idea that society might ever value my life more than I do or derive a larger benefit from treating every life...
...which strikes an acoustic, almost alt-country posture in its first minute, the better. “Mama” flirts with cabaret punk, with a level of success that depends completely on how much you like 1) that sub-genre and 2) Liza Minelli, who guest stars. “I Don’t Love You” is a guitar-driven lament that reaches almost Nickelbackian proportions of blandness...
...Liza, stop it, stop it!'" David Gest, husband of actress Liza Minelli, recounting how he tried to fend off allegedly drunken beatings by his wife, according to his $10 million civil suit. Minelli, who denies the allegations, has filed for divorce...