EVEN healthy people should be allowed to commit suicide if they are “fed up with life”, a leading member of Dignitas, the Swiss assisted-suicide organisation said.

Silvan Luley, who is unofficially known as the deputy director of Dignitas, says he is concerned that under current Swiss law the association cannot offer assisted suicides to individuals who are “perfectly healthy”.

Luley said: “The more restrictive you design a law, the more difficult you make it for people to access a dignified end in life, the more people will turn to ghastly methods.

“The starting point must not be ‘let’s look at who qualifies’. The starting point must be ‘anybody can do it’. The more liberal you make it [the law] the higher is the chance you