An American expatriate who set up websites offering to help people make arrangements to kill themselves in Cambodia shut the sites down in 2005, saying he hoped to avoid problems with the authorities.
Due to the drug's availability at pet shops, tourists seeking to end their lives were reported to be flying from around the world to Mexico.
In January 2006, British doctor Anne Turner died by suicide in a Zürich clinic having developed an incurable degenerative disease.
In 2007, Dignitas launched an effort to gain legal permission for healthy foreigners, including married couples with suicide pacts, to end their lives in Switzerland.
[13] In July 2009, British conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife Joan died together at a suicide clinic outside Zürich "under circumstances of their own choosing."
[15] In a referendum on 15 May 2011, voters in the Canton of Zürich overwhelmingly rejected calls to ban assisted suicide or to outlaw the practice for non-residents.