Assisted Suicide: Who Decides – When, Where and How?

November 5, 2014

(Medical Tourism Magazine) – Suicide tourism is a far cry from medical tourism, in which patients seek affordable procedures and treatments at attractive destinations where they can relax and recover compared to places where the dying travel to rest in peace. Renée-Marie Stephano, President of the Medical Tourism Association®, said medical tourism patients can certainly cite the benefits of elective procedures overseas like orthopedic and cardiovascular surgeries, but traveling for assisted suicide raises a host of ethical and legal questions