A-Z Index and Quotes database . There are no laws to allow assisted suicide in practice in Germany or Switzerland, contrary to frequent claims. To see how cases are handled, students may wish to refer to our quotations database . Euthanasia and assisted suicide are not, and never have been, legal in the Netherlands . Serious students wishing to do original research on the legal situation around the world are recommended to write to the relevant Law Commissions etc, not to the euthansia societies, all of whom, it must be emphasised, are not an authority on the law.
Similar remarks apply to laws on living wills.