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'I Am at the Limit of My Dignity': Brazilian with Degenerative Disease Goes to Switzerland for Assisted Suicide

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With incurable disease, Célia decided how she wanted to die; access to the procedure requires travel and high cost outside Brazil.

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With incurable disease, Célia decided how she wanted to die; access to the procedure requires travel and high cost outside Brazil.

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The Brazilian Célia Maria Cassiano went through an assisted suicide in Switzerland this week. In Brazil, the procedure is not allowed; however, it is accepted in other parts of the globe. In a video published on social networks after the procedure, she apologized for cheating doctors and lawyers and asked that people fight for a law in Brazil that allows the right to choose to have a dignified death. When I spoke, people fled. So, in the last si…

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The Brazilian teacher Célia Maria Cassiano, from Campinas, in the interior of São Paulo, went through an assisted death procedure in Switzerland, according to a publication on her Instagram on Wednesday (15). ‘I am going to rest forever, as we are all going, right??, she said in video published on social networks. In October 2024, Célia was diagnosed with Lateral Amiotrophic Sclerosis (ELA), a degenerative disease. A week ago, she traveled to Sw…

In November 2024, the Brazilian Cia Maria Cassiano used a social network to communicate that she had received the diagnosis of doen a dour nio motor. In short, the art history teacher was 67 years old. Read more (04/17/2026

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Globo broke the news in Brazil on Friday, April 17, 2026.
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