suicide tourism

suicide tourism (uncountable)

1. Travel for the purpose of committing suicide, as for example to a country where assisted suicide is legal.
   • 2005, Margot Bettauer Dembo, transl., Nothing But Ghosts, Fourth Estate, translation of Nichts als Gespenster by Judith Hermann, →ISBN:

     ‘In Venice they have suicide tourism,’ my father had once said. ‘People who want to commit suicide make a special trip to Venice and then at five o'clock in the morning they put a bullet through their heads on the Piazza San Marco.’

   • 2014 August 27, Julie Beck, “'Going to Switzerland' Is a Euphemism for Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic‎:

     The Swiss researchers write that “the six right-to-die organizations assist in approximately 600 cases of suicide per year; some 150 to 200 of which are suicide tourists,” or people coming to Switzerland seeking aid-in-dying. The study looks at the data on suicide tourism in the greater Zurich area between 2008 and 2012.

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