The founder of Dignitas, the Switzerland-based assisted suicide clinic, has died aged 92, according to the organisation.

Ludwig Minelli, lawyer and former journalist, died on 29 November shortly before his 93rd birthday.

Mr Minelli lived a life "for freedom of choice, self-determination, and human rights", said Dignitas in a tribute.

He founded the organisation in 1998 with "a group of like-minded people".

"At that time, he and his fellow compatriots would never have thought that this association was about to become an internationally active organisation," said the tribute.

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'He died like he lived, with dignity'

It described Mr Minelli's belief that trying to "talk someone out of suicide is not a suitable preventio

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