Campaigners for a referendum to overturn a decision by the Geneva Grand Council to remove the right to assisted suicide in medical centres and care homes has received three times the number of signatures required to force it to a vote.
Nearly 15,000 people signed.
Organised by the EXIT Association, the referendum calls for a ‘dignified end of life’ and insists the current legal provision allowing the practice in hospitals and care homes remain.
In September, the Grand Council voted to end the right, meaning patients would have to leave hospital or their care home to die.
EXIT says the decision was taken in haste with insufficient debate.
Last year in Geneva, 133 people were helped to die, including 17 in care homes and 5 at the University Hospital.
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