The controversy over a person's right to die at a time and place of their own choosing has become focused on the Swiss organization Dignitas. Dignitas, in Zurich Switzerland, is the only place where a person seeking an assisted suicide can legally be helped to die, no matter where they are from - or what their state of health or what their state of health, as long their wish to die has been held for or over a significant period of time. Craig Ewert, a 59-year-old American with motor-neuron disease, has been a radical since his college days in the sixties, and is determined not to live through his steady deterioration until what he fears may be a horrific 'natural' death. Should Craig Ewert be able to kill himself, even though it could be years before his disease would kill him? The Suicide Tourist helps you decide for yourself. For a year, Oscar-winning director John Zaritsky had exclusive access to Dignitas, and its clients. Through the intimate, compelling, and controversial stories of four lives - and one death - The Suicide Tourist will take the audience on a journey they could only have imagined, and won't forget.

Running Time: 56 mins

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