Mortality rate increased due to suicide support service.

Frieda Felger, 97, when she died, was one of many elderly people in Germany who chose suicide to end their lives, but there was one controversial case whether people should get help. when they decided to commit suicide?

Frieda committed suicide on November 28, determined to find his own death when she found her life too miserable. Because she is currently one of five people still receiving help from Roger Kusch, he was a former minister of justice before and now he is an advocate of deathless pain.

Kusch of course does not directly assist the death of victims because it is considered illegal under German law.

But he is working to advertise his 'suicide counseling' service that provides advice and assistance to those who intend to seek death.

He filmed the discussion with the case of suicidal intent and then gave the newspaper a video of his first client using his method by drinking a poisonous cocktail to prove that His work is not only a hypothesis.

Kusch was criticized as a populist and a provocative man when he was still working in his Hamburg office, currently consulting up to 8,000 Euro each time, equivalent to $ 10,110.

He once told AFP 'I provide services. And in our society it's valuable and can't be provided for free. ' And Frieda is the fifth person to commit suicide using his service.

Suicide counseling. (Photo: media.ebaumsworld.com)

In fact, she wanted to die in her house, but because the port had found Kusch's computer and discovered her name, she could find a way to stop her suicide, so she was forced to stay in the hotel herself. west of the town of Muelheim. He explained on his website so.

In Germany, as in many European countries, the number of suicides is declining except for the elderly, especially men over 75 according to official survey data. More than 40% of suicide cases in Germany last year over 60 accounted for 3,993 out of 9,402 - even this age group accounted for only 1/4 of the population.

According to Christine Swientek, a researcher on suicide, real numbers may be even higher because most doctors want to comfort families' pain and social support by add the cause of the death of the elderly like heart failure rather than telling the truth to suicide.

Many of them choose to commit suicide when they are sick, or frustrated or frustrated not enough to 'end their life in the lonely home of the elderly'.

'Some elderly people end their lives just because they are tired of life.' Kusch said. 'Many people now live longer because of medical development. But life is sometimes meaningless. And there are many people over 80 and don't want life to continue any more. '

He has 'over 100 cases for help' on his list, up to two thirds of them are over 70 years old.

But for every 5 cases, there was a case of his choice and only one of them was seriously ill.

Frieda says Kusch is really old. She lived in a panic and could not leave the house alone. She was affected by dyspnea and 'motionless' syndrome.

In addition to Kusch's argument, this angered politicians, workers and priests and sparked a television debate about the "commercialization of self-help services". still '.

In July, the Bundesrat, the upper house of the German parliament called for 'self-help to organize' or 'commercial suicide assistance' will be banned. The lower house of the Bundestag still supports it as legal and ethical.

Meanwhile Kusch promised he would find a way to avoid the law that could prevent him from assisting those who seek death.