Dignitas Under Investigation for 'Profiteering' from Assisted Suicide Patients

Dignitas, which is meant to be a non-profit organization, is being forced to open its accounts to prosecutors in Switzerland and disclose how much money it is receiving from its controversial business of assisting suicide. The founder of the group is reported to have become a millionaire by helping at least 870 terminally ill people – an estimated 100 of whom were British – die. It is said to have taken as much as £61,000 from one woman, 10 times its usual fee. Dignitas Possible Profiteering Investigation