Dignitas, actually. £5K ... and it's "all over" in under an hour! Within the past decade, more than 200 Britons have travelled to Zurich, Switzerland .. where they've decided to end their lives at the controversial, assisted suicide clinic ... appropriately-named, 'Dignitas'. And only this week, the widow of an unnamed 83-year-old - said to be from a wealthy professional background - claimed she was "extremely happy" at the dignified manner in which arrangements were handled, after her husband chose "death before dementia" ... believed to be the first case of
its kind in circumstances normally reserved for patients suffering from other incurable illnesses such as motor neurone disease or terminal-stage cancer.

Apparently, following medical confirmation that he was suffering from the early onset of this progressive, non-curable, disease, the elderly patient appears to have been adamant that he wanted to spare his close family the burden he felt his illness would, sooner or later, put them through as his condition steadily worsened.

Accordingly, at his own insistence, he had been referred to a psychiatrist who, in turn, issued a report stating that the man
was still of sound mind ... "mentally competent to choose to kill himself".

Last night, a campaigner for voluntary euthanasia told how the pensioner was "so grateful at the end".