| It follows a number of cases where terminally ill adults have travelled to the Swiss clinic Dignitas to end their lives. |
| The word dignitas was a Latin rhetorical and political term that indicated either the possession of high political or social rank or the moral qualities associated with it. |
| While Donum vitae stopped short of declaring the embryo to be a human person, Dignitas personae stops only a hairsbreadth from doing so. |
