Suicide tourism have repeatedly criticized suicide assistance for foreigners, branding it "suicide tourism" ("Sterbetourismus" in German). In 2007, Dignitas launched an effort to gain legal permission for healthy foreigners, including married couples committed to suicide pacts, to end their lives in Switzerland. 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." Sir Edward was not terminally ill, but his wife was diagnosed with rapidly developing cancer. In March 2010, the PBS Frontline TV program in the United States showed a documentary called "The Suicide Tourist"
Sir Edward Bullock Sir Edward Bullock Sir Edward Bullock of Faulkbourne (c. 1580 - 1644) was an English landowner, knighted by King James I and a Cavalier during the English Civil War. He purchased Faulkbourne Hall in 1637 which was held in the Bullock family for 260 years. Edward Bullock was born c. 1580, the elder son of Edward Bullock of Wigborough and Loftes in Great Totham and Joan Collen of High Laver, Essex. Edward married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Thomas Wylde of Glazeley Hall (died 1599), Salop and Kempsey, Worcester and sister of Sir Edmund Wylde. Edward died in 1644 and