Dignitas Suicide Urns found at the bottom of Lake Zurich

Over 50 urns containing ashes have been discovered by divers in Lake Zurich bearing the logo of the Nordheim Crematorium authority where the Swiss Suicide clinic Dignitas is based.

Over 50 urns containing ashes have been discovered by divers in Lake Zurich bearing the logo of the Nordheim Crematorium authority where the Swiss Suicide clinic Dignitas is based.

Police diver Roman Ruetz said: ‘After 50, we stopped counting... they lay there in a big heap.’ The Police have called for a full recovery operation to take place.

Authorities were first made aware that Dignitas had been illegally dumping the remains of the dead when it was reported in 2008 that two of their staff members were caught pouring the ashes of 20 dead into Lake Zurich.

A former employee of Dignitas, Soraya Wernli, said in 2008: ‘I calculate that about 300 Dignitas customers have had their ashes dropped into the lake over the years.’

Since the clinic was opened in 1998, over a thousand people, mostly with terminal illnesses, but a number (21%) with just ‘weariness of life’, have been helped to kill themselves by the Dignitas clinic. Of these, over a hundred were British ‘suicide tourists’.

Andrea Williams, Director of CCFON, commented: ‘This is a picture of the horror of what happens when life ceases to be respected as it should. These people have not been treated with dignity and the further liberalisation of assisted suicide laws in our Country will open the doors to still more horror stories.