On May 19, 2022, the Federation of Swiss Doctors (FMH) reviewed its directives concerning the support of people at the end of life and has revised its guidelines to follow those applied by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (ASSM) since 2018. The new text explicitly states what was implicit until now: assisted suicide of healthy people is not defensible from a medico-ethical point of view. Unbearable suffering must be proven. Doctors must also now be more involved by conducting at least two interviews with people wishing to resort to assisted suicide. Suicide assistance organizations deplore much more complicated access to assistance and fear that assisted suicide will become much more difficult.
