Remains of Suicidal People Found in a Lake

I had no idea until yesterday that you could go to another country for the expressed purpose of committing suicide. But you can in Switzerland. A company there called of all things, “Dignitas” will murder you with your consent and then dump your remains in a jar at the bottom of Lake Zurich. And for some reason people are upset because Dignitas has “disrespected” the remains?

From the DailyMail here:

Scores of urns containing human ashes have been found dumped in a lake near the Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas. One estimate puts the number discovered 30ft down on the bed of Lake Zurich at 300 or more.

The urns bear the logo of a cremation service thought to be used by Dignitas, the controversial organisation where more than 100 Britons have ended their lives.

It is not known if the remains of any British ‘suicide tourists’ are involved.

The urns were discovered by chance when divers from a rescue service were looking for a lost sunshade from one of their boats.

After retrieving 13 urns they notified the Environment Agency and police divers were called in. One said: ‘After 50 we stopped counting. They lay there in a big heap.’

Environment Agency spokesman Wolfgang Bollack said: ‘We have filed a criminal complaint against unknown persons for disturbance of the dead.

‘The retrieved urns are being kept in a place respecting their dignity.’

Last night Lesley Close, whose brother John died there aged 55 in May 2003, after suffering with motor neurone disease, said: ‘This underlines the need for change in British law on the subject of assisted suicide. ‘We should be absolutely certain what happens to the remains of our loved ones after they are dead. We need our own laws.’

Wait, what? So people who didn’t give a crap about their own lives somehow want their remains treated better than a flush down the sewer? Those 300 urns at the bottom of the lake represent 300 families who didn’t give a crap about their loved ones when they were alive, NOR when they went overseas to snuff it. Otherwise, they would have reclaimed the remains and kept them and disposed of them on their own.

And now the ghouls come out begging to enact laws in their own country so people can simply be flushed down their own sewers rather those of another country.