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    Commentary: The story of my mother-in-law’s assisted suicide

    by Nan Wiener, Los Angeles Times May 10, 2023 4 minutes
    Physician-assisted suicide is a difficult minefield to negotiate, which no doubt explains why it’ s so rare, and so heavily restricted in this country.

    A few months ago, several members of my family and I took my 88-year-old mother-in-law to Switzerland to help her end her life. At Dignitas, a clinic in Zurich that offers physician-assisted suicide, she drank a dose of pentobarbital, fell asleep almost immediately and minutes later quietly stopped breathing.

    Back home, when we had told friends this was about to happen, they were shocked and solicitous. “Oh, my God, her sons must be devastated!” And on a more practical note, “How are you going to spend the two days in Zurich before she dies? Won’t that be unbelievably ghoulish?”

    Clearly, these sentiments were well-intentioned, and

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