More than 1,000 people have travelled to Switzerland to end their lives. But what is it really like inside the world's first assisted suicide centre? Ludwig Minelli is explaining the best techniques for an efficient suicide when the doorbell goes and he pauses to answer via an intercom. It is already dark outside his cluttered, dimly lit conservatory, and heavy rain is beating at the glass roof. "Would you excuse me for a moment?" he says, frowning at the interruption. "A taxi driver tells me that Greek persons are coming and they want to speak with me." Ten minutes later he reemerges, shaking out his black anorak which is glistening with rain. "It's absurd," he says, with an embarrassed laugh. "A Greek lady and her uncle, knowing not a single word of German and no English have come to Zurich." Standing on his doorstep in the pouring rain, the Greek woman has somehow made it clear that she would like him to help her to die. Such peculiar intrusions happen every month or so because
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