Chris Woodhead: My last stand Of course, this careful and clever man has already considered the possibility that the advance of the illness may be so swift that he may be caught out, suddenly ending up too incapacitated to be in a position to kill himself. Nor is travelling to Dignitas, the clinic in Switzerland at which more than 100 terminally ill Britons have had assisted deaths, his preferred option. The idea of going perhaps to his favourite climb and launching himself off seems more appealing.