Raimundo Rojas | Dec 3, 2025 | Washington, DC.The day Ludwig Minelli died, November 29, 2025, he was in the same sterile blue room where he had approved the deaths of over 4,200 men and women.
The founder and main profiteer of Dignitas ingested the poison his organization had perfected, calling it a final victory. It was a chilling climax to a lifetime spent convincing desperate people that the world is better off without them.
Minelli grew up the eldest child of a Swiss house painter, with no signs of personal trauma or a tragic loss pushing him toward advocating for assisted death. He didn’t care for a dying spouse. He didn’t lose a child. No major tragedy molded him. What shaped him was cold ideology, cloaked in the noble language of rights, autonomy, and mercy, but beneath every polished phrase lurked an old, murderous lie: some lives aren’t worth living.
In 1998, Minelli turned his deadly lie into a thriving business, setting up in a quiet residential area on Gloria Street in Zurich. From the start, the bodies started to pile up. He welcomed people with treatable depression, disabled individuals who had spent decades proving their worth, terrified elderly men and women, and even healthy people feeling weary; he asked almost no questions, took their fees, and handed them death in a plastic cup.
Over 4,000 times, he faced suffering and prescribed annihilation.
The neighbors in his building never signed up for the nightmare he created. They watched staff carry black body bags through shared hallways and cram corpses into the tiny elevator, propping them upright like forgotten luggage. Children waited beside the dead. Residents greeted smiling visitors one day and stepped over zipped-up remains the next. One woman suffered panic attacks until she could escape. And Minelli? He responded with cold silence and total indifference; he turned their home into a morgue and expected them to live with it.
That’s the true face of his “dignity”: polished marketing on one side, neighbors sharing elevators with corpses on the other. The glamour fades where the body bag begins.
He charged steep prices for the privilege of dying and frightening his neighbors—11,000 Swiss francs ($13,000) or more, plus airfare, hotel, cremation, and paperwork to send ashes home. He built a death empire that grew wealthy in the process. When critics pointed out that Swiss law forbids assisted suicide for selfish gain, Minelli shrugged and kept collecting fees. He turned despair into profit, calling it compassion.
The “safeguards” he claimed to have collapsed when money or convenience was at stake. Doctors falsified reports. Depressed patients were approved in days. One woman with no physical illness died because someone lied on a form. Minelli never apologized. He kept expanding the criteria because, in his world, the desire to die always outweighed the need to protect life.
On November 29, he finally succumbed to his own propaganda. At ninety-two, facing whatever fears old age brought him, he abandoned the very autonomy he idolized when it required courage.
We oppose his message with all our strength. We declare unashamedly that no one is better off dead. No depression is permanent. No disability diminishes dignity. No burden justifies murder.
He’s gone now. The culture of death lost its most relentless promoter. But his clinics remain, and his lies still echo in parliaments and courts worldwide.
We will not stay silent. We will not compromise. We will never accept the lie that killing is kindness. We will stand and shout the truth until our voices fail: every life is worth fighting for, every suffering person deserves love, and no human being should ever be discarded.
Ludwig Minelli gave in to the poison he sold. We refuse to give in. We face every threat to life with unwavering resistance, saving one vulnerable person at a time. That defiance defines us. That drive keeps us going. And that defiance will outlive every death chamber he inspired.
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Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.
