Meanings
- uncountableTravel for the purpose of committing suicide, as for example to a country where assisted suicide is legal.
‘In Venice they have suicide tourism,’ my father had once said. ‘People who want to commit suicide make a special trip to Venice and then at five o'clock in the morning they put a bullet through their heads on the Piazza San Marco.’
2005, Margot Bettauer Dembo, transl., Nothing But Ghosts, Fourth Estate, translation of Nichts als Gespenster by Judith Hermann, →ISBN1 more example
The Swiss researchers write that “the six right-to-die organizations assist in approximately 600 cases of suicide per year; some 150 to 200 of which are suicide tourists,” or people coming to Switzerland seeking aid-in-dying. The study looks at the data on suicide tourism in the greater Zurich area between 2008 and 2012.
2014 August 27, Julie Beck, “'Going to Switzerland' Is a Euphemism for Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic
Translations
Dutch zelfmoordtoerisme
- zelfmoordtoerismetravel for the purpose of committing suicide
German Sterbetourismus
- Sterbetourismustravel for the purpose of committing suicide
Cite this entry
suicide tourism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suicide%20tourism
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