B GITA

/////////////////////Chapter V: The Yoga of Renunciation of ActionV.20. NA PRAHRISHYET PRIYAM PRAAPYA NODWIJET PRAAPYA CHAAPRIYAM;STHIRABUDDHIR ASAMMOODHO BRAHMAVID BRAHMANI STHITAH.(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)Resting in Brahman, with steady intellect, undeluded,the knower of Brahman neither rejoiceth on obtaining whatis pleasant nor grieveth on obtaining what is unpleasant.V.21. BAAHYASPARSHESHWASAKTAATMAA VINDATYAATMANI YAT SUKHAM;SA BRAHMA YOGA YUKTAATMAA SUKHAM AKSHAYAM ASHNUTE.With the self unattached to the external contactshe discovers happiness in the Self; with the selfengaged in the meditation of Brahman he attains tothe endless happiness.

////////////////////The LondonFree Press" in Canada carried this article on 8 November 2007:Looking for the endBy DONNA CASEY Listening to Ludwig Minelli talk about his work, it's easy to forget the 75-year-old lawyer is in the suicide tourism business.The founder of Dignitas, the Swiss right-to-die organization, has the stark statistics at hand. There are the 753 foreigners who have visited the group's Zurich flat during the last eight years and ended their lives with an overdose of barbituates. And there's the $6,500 service fee for clients, who go from age 20 to 95.But Minelli says his group -- aided by his country's legalization of assisted suicide -- wants to help those trapped in what he calls "a long, dark tunnel.""This tunnel has two exits. The first is to go to the so-called natural end with unknown pain in the future or to try to make a suicide on their own, which is very risky," explains Minelli of the dilemma bringing hundreds of despairing foreigners to his organization."We make an emergency exit in this tunnel and the door is wide open," says Minelli of giving citizens from far and away -- including Canada -- the chance to end their suffering with a prescription overdose.Earlier this year, Elizabeth MacDonald, a 38-year-old wife and mother from Windsor, N.S., who was crippled with multiple sclerosis, flew to Zurich with her husband Eric and ended her life at the Dignitas apartment.In Switzerland, assisted suicides are legal as long as the agencies that help arrange the deaths do it for "honourable reasons" and don't profit from the death, aside from charging basic fees. Dignitas is one of three Swiss right-to-die groups that help arrange assisted suicides.Minelli says Dignitas is "helping many more people to live than to help die, but the media are not very interested in living people as they are in dead people."He says roughly 70% of the clients who get the approval through Swiss law never follow through.Clients often "discover that they have much more strength than they ever thought they had."

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