A male 47-year-old schoolteacher, secretly flys to Switzerland paying £10K
 

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Photo from 2017 with his gran.


Secretly to End his life

His parents have not given a
recent photo of him.
We need to know the Full Truth
of how ill he was.



[A 47-year-old schoolteacher with
no diagnosed illness paid more than
£10,000 to die at a Swiss suicide clinic – which then
kept his death a secret from his family.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that chemistry teacher
Alastair Hamilton told his parents he
was visiting a friend in Paris when instead he was
flying to Basel in Switzerland to end his
life by lethal injection.

His distraught mother Judith Hamilton, 81,
last night warned that other families should
be aware of the 'cowboy clinic' called Pegasos which,
unlike the better-known Dignitas clinic,
does not require people to be terminally ill
or to be accompanied by someone when they
go there to die.]

[An analysis of his bank transactions
then revealed four payments totalling £10,310
to the Pegasos Swiss Association,
a small clinic run from an office in central Basel.
Officers contacted Pegasos but,
other than confirming Alastair had died there,
the clinic failed to provide police with the date
of his death or any other information.]


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I don't agree with that at all. He's only 6 years older than me.

He may have been ill
but did not let his parents know.

Terrible, this is why legalising suicide can open the floodgates to things like this. Just look at Canada where assisted dying kills thousands of people now and is rapidly expanding. Soon you'll only need a mental health condition to be approved for it

This doesn't make any sense. Unless he was secretly ill?

Unfortunately you will not stop someone who is determined to kill themselves better for them to die in a controlled way then by hanging themselves and anther family member finding them.

Yes,
he was getting thin.
The Family is not giving us all the facts
maybe as they can not find out?
Not even a recent photo,
that's them keeping his illness secret

He's too young to die. Especially if not ill.

Hundreds of people take their own lives every month. Presumably if he'd not gone to Switzerland he'd have done it at home. Terribly sad and devastating for his family but sometimes it's just too hard for some people to carry on.

He wanted to be away from his parents

We should always remove that possibility as best we can though imo not make it easier. Whether that's through organisations like the Samaritans, better mental health provisions, or banning assisted dying - they're all levers to use to stop people killing themselves

Absolutely. Canada is a disgrace on this

I believe sane people have autonomy over their own lives and if they choose to end it all, that's up to them. That's not to say organisations like the Samaritans shouldn't be available for people and that better mental health provision shouldn't be in place. But rather this chap, who's obviously thought this through, go somewhere and be assisted than to take a pile of paracetamols and die a slow death through massive organ failure.