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1d ago
Paola Marra ended her life last week in Switzerland after being told by doctors she could not be guaranteed a pain-free death from bowel cancer in the coming months. Robert Booth reports
Last week Paola Marra arrived in Zurich for the last journey she would ever make. She was in the final months of her life with stage-four bowel cancer and had an appointment with Dignitas for an assisted death. She had gone alone, partly because she wanted peace in her final moments, but also because of the legal risk to her friends or family who could be seen to be assisting her.
She spoke several times over ..read more
The Guardian » Switzerland
6d ago
Paola Marra says assisted dying is about reclaiming control and calls existing laws ‘unfair and cruel’ in posthumous clip
Paola Marra, the 53-year-old from London who took her own life at Dignitas in Switzerland on Wednesday, has urged the public and politicians to help change the law on assisted dying in a posthumous video.
In a clip filmed before she flew to Zurich this week, Marra, who had had terminal bowel cancer since 2021, said: “As you watch this, I am dead. But you watching this could help change the laws around assisted dying ..read more
The Guardian » Switzerland
6d ago
On the eve of her death in Switzerland Paola Marra told the Guardian about her journey and her wish that she could have died at home
Paola Marra’s social calendar has been packed in recent weeks. The 53-year-old has been dining at some of London’s best restaurants, enjoying grand afternoon teas and meeting old pals at hedonist hotspots such as the Groucho private members’ club.
The Canadian-born former music industry and charity worker has lots of friends from 35 years living in England – but not everyone can get a slot to see her ..read more
The Guardian » Switzerland
2w ago
Sixth member of cross-country tour group still missing, authorities in Zermatt say
Five cross-country skiers who went missing during a ski tour in Switzerland were found dead, while a search was still on for the sixth skier, according to police.
Police in Switzerland’s Valais canton on Sunday started searching for six people who went missing during a ski tour that departed from the alpine town of Zermatt ..read more
The Guardian » Switzerland
2w ago
Police in Valais canton say emergency response is being hampered by ‘very bad’ weather conditions
Police are searching for six people who have gone missing during a ski tour that departed from the Alpine town of Zermatt in Switzerland’s Valais canton.
The cross-country skiers, five of them members of the same family, went missing around Tête Blanche mountain on Saturday on the Zermatt-Arolla path, near the Matterhorn mountain that straddles the border between Switzerland and Italy, police said ..read more
The Guardian » Switzerland
1M ago
Proposal focuses on technique that fills atmosphere with particles, reflecting part of sun’s heat and light back into space
Switzerland has initiated a global debate on whether the “risks, benefits and uncertainties” of dimming the sun should be studied by a United Nations expert group.
It is proposing that the world body should gather information about ongoing research into solar geoengineering, and set up an advisory panel that could suggest future options for the untested and controversial approach to reduce global heating, which would have implications for food supply, biodiversity, global ..read more
The Guardian » Switzerland
1M ago
Ashwath Kaushik of Singapore defeats 37-year-old grandmaster, beating record set days before by another eight-year-old
An eight-year-old chess prodigy from Singapore has become the youngest chess player to beat a grandmaster.
After a three-hour game of chess at Switzerland’s Burgdorfer Stadthaus-Open, Ashwath Kaushik – who is eight and six months – beat the 37-year-old Polish grandmaster Jacek Stopa on Sunday, according to the Star ..read more
The Guardian » Switzerland
1M ago
Swiss-Italian study finds MiniTouch can help people with amputations feel whether objects are hot, cold or in between
Whether it is a simple handshake or a full-body hug, the warmth of another person adds a human touch to social interactions. Now researchers have created a device that allows people with amputations to experience such natural temperature sensations using their prostheses.
The team say the innovation is a first and paves the way for integrating a host of sensations into artificial limbs ..read more
The Guardian » Switzerland
1M ago
Research lab submits plans for next-generation model at least three times size of Large Hadron Collider
Officials at Cern, home to the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, are pressing ahead with plans for a new machine that would be at least three times bigger than the existing particle accelerator.
The Large Hadron Collider, built inside a 27km circular tunnel beneath the Swiss-French countryside, smashes together protons and other subatomic particles at close to the speed of light to recreate the conditions that existed fractions of a second after the big bang ..read more
The Guardian » Switzerland
1M ago
Company draws Greensill Capital founder and Gupta’s Liberty businesses into case at high court in London
The Swiss insurer Zurich alleges it has been the victim of fraud in a counter-claim in London over the demise of the Greensill business empire, drawing the financier Lex Greensill and the metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta into a £320m court battle.
Zurich Insurance Company was last year sued in the high court by the administrators of Greensill Bank, which entered German insolvency proceedings in 2021, in a dispute over trade credit insurance ..read more