On September 30, 2014, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) declared inadmissible the case of Gross v. Switzerland [3], which concerned the inability of an elderly woman, who was not suffering from a clinical illness, to obtain the Swiss authorities’ permission to be given a lethal dose of a drug in order to commit suicide.  According to the  press release [4], the Court found that because the applicant had committed suicide in 2011, but taken steps to keep this information from her attorney so that her case might still move forward, “her conduct had constituted an abuse of the right of individual application (Article 35 §§ 3 (a) and 4 of the Convention).”  Although the previous Chamber decision found that Swiss law was unclear as to when assisted suicide was permitted and “that there had been a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights,” the Chamber’s findings are no longer legally valid.