About us
Athanasios is a dedicated Swiss organization founded in 2025 to offer compassionate and professional support to individuals in difficult life situations, particularly in the field of voluntary assisted dying.
About us
Athanasios is a dedicated Swiss organization founded in 2025 to offer compassionate and professional support to individuals in difficult life situations, particularly in the field of voluntary assisted dying.
With a team of experienced professionals, including medical staff and experts in ethics, psychology, and law, Athanasios ensures that the needs of applicants are met with the utmost sensitivity and competence.
The team speaks several languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian,Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch and Danish, ensuring that individuals from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds receive the necessary support. Athanasios places special emphasis on understanding the individual situation of each applicant and providing respectful and dignified support on the path to a self-determined end of life.
The organization follows the mission of upholding human dignity, promoting social justice, and ensuring a respectful approach to life and death.
Our work is based on the core values of respect, autonomy, and responsibility. We are convinced that self-determination is a fundamental human right, especially during life’s most difficult moments. People who choose Athanasios trust us because of our integrity, reliability and professionalism at every stage of the process.
The positive feedback from our applicants and their families, who describe our support as empathetic and respectful, serves as constant inspiration. It motivates us to continue our work with dedication and care, helping people in their most difficult moments and supporting them in realizing their wishes in a safe and supportive environment.
Our Staff: Mr. Cabrera was a senior nurse at Pegasos. His responsibilities included conducting the pre-consultation about AVD with patients, administering the infusion, and monitoring the insertion site to ensure that the infusion worked correctly without blockages or issues. Additionally, he led the support for patients in their ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) and provided both psychological and nursing support to the patients and their family members. Carlos also worked with LifeCircle and Erika Preisig.
Mrs. Geist also worked for Pegasos following the progress of the applicants’ files and had previously collaborated with Erika Preisig at LifeCircle, mainly as a translator. Mr. Scholaart is the President of the Danish Right to Die Society and has many years of experience helping people organize their trip to Switzerland to carry out their choice to end their life.
The team works with two doctors and three psychiatrists, all of whom have previously worked for either Pegasos or LifeCircle. The evaluation of each application is carried out by a total of six staff members, starting with a personal advisor.
Athanasios operates from a house in Baselland, a suburb of Basel, about six kilometers west of the city center. It is also just six kilometers from Basel-Mulhouse Airport. The house serves both as an office and as the place of their AVD apartment. It is less rural than other locations but not as “industrial.”
Athanasios – for a self-determined and dignified end of life.
Bodies of the Association and Board
The association consists of three main bodies: the General Assembly, the Board, and the Auditing Body. The General Assembly is convened once a year, it elects the Board and approves the financial statement. The Board, consisting of at least three members, manages the affairs of the association and ensures the implementation of its goals. The Auditing Body is responsible for reviewing the financial documents and reports to the General Assembly.
Dataprotection and Confidentiality
- The board and the staff of the association maintain confidentiality regarding all association matters and all personal data.
- Athanasios provides information about the processing of personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection regulations and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The association, headquartered in Zürich, is responsible for data processing. Personal data such as name, address, health data and user behavior are processed only to the extent necessary and on a legal basis.
Legal basis and purposes of data processing
The processing of personal data is based on consent, for the purpose of the fulfillment of a contract, the compliance with legal obligations or the protection of legitimate interests. Data is stored for as long as is necessary for the respective purpose or as required by law.
Rights of data subjects
Applicants have the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection and data portability. Consent can be revoked at any time without affecting the legality of the processing that has taken place up to that point. Complaints can be submitted to the data protection officer of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft.
Data processing and disclosure
The Athanasios Association uses carefully selected external service providers for certain data processing operations, who are bound by strict instructions. Data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract. Personal data may be processed within Switzerland.
Contact
Data transmitted in the context of contact requests and applications are used exclusively to process the respective request. The processing is based on consent and is subject to the applicable data protection regulations.
Online data protection declaration
Additional information on the processing of personal data when visiting the website of Athanasios is available in the online version of the data protection declaration.
Date of declaration: January 2025
This data protection declaration guarantees transparent and lawful processing of personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection regulations and the GDPR.
With a team of experienced professionals, including medical staff and experts in ethics, psychology, and law, Athanasios ensures that the needs of applicants are met with the utmost sensitivity and competence.
The team speaks several languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian,Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch and Danish, ensuring that individuals from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds receive the necessary support. Athanasios places special emphasis on understanding the individual situation of each applicant and providing respectful and dignified support on the path to a self-determined end of life.
The organization follows the mission of upholding human dignity, promoting social justice, and ensuring a respectful approach to life and death.
Our work is based on the core values of respect, autonomy, and responsibility. We are convinced that self-determination is a fundamental human right, especially during life’s most difficult moments. People who choose Athanasios trust us because of our integrity, reliability and professionalism at every stage of the process.
The positive feedback from our applicants and their families, who describe our support as empathetic and respectful, serves as constant inspiration. It motivates us to continue our work with dedication and care, helping people in their most difficult moments and supporting them in realizing their wishes in a safe and supportive environment.
Our Staff: Mr. Cabrera was a senior nurse at Pegasos. His responsibilities included conducting the pre-consultation about AVD with patients, administering the infusion, and monitoring the insertion site to ensure that the infusion worked correctly without blockages or issues. Additionally, he led the support for patients in their ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) and provided both psychological and nursing support to the patients and their family members. Carlos also worked with LifeCircle and Erika Preisig.
Mrs. Geist also worked for Pegasos following the progress of the applicants’ files and had previously collaborated with Erika Preisig at LifeCircle, mainly as a translator. Mr. Scholaart is the President of the Danish Right to Die Society and has many years of experience helping people organize their trip to Switzerland to carry out their choice to end their life.
The team works with two doctors and three psychiatrists, all of whom have previously worked for either Pegasos or LifeCircle. The evaluation of each application is carried out by a total of six staff members, starting with a personal advisor.
Athanasios operates from a house in Baselland, a suburb of Basel, about six kilometers west of the city center. It is also just six kilometers from Basel-Mulhouse Airport. The house serves both as an office and as the place of their AVD apartment. It is less rural than other locations but not as “industrial.”
Athanasios – for a self-determined and dignified end of life.
Board
Bodies of the Association and Board
The association consists of three main bodies: the General Assembly, the Board, and the Auditing Body. The General Assembly is convened once a year, it elects the Board and approves the financial statement. The Board, consisting of at least three members, manages the affairs of the association and ensures the implementation of its goals. The Auditing Body is responsible for reviewing the financial documents and reports to the General Assembly.
Statutes
Dataprotection and Confidentiality
- The board and the staff of the association maintain confidentiality regarding all association matters and all personal data.
- Athanasios provides information about the processing of personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection regulations and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The association, headquartered in Zürich, is responsible for data processing. Personal data such as name, address, health data and user behavior are processed only to the extent necessary and on a legal basis.
Legal basis and purposes of data processing
The processing of personal data is based on consent, for the purpose of the fulfillment of a contract, the compliance with legal obligations or the protection of legitimate interests. Data is stored for as long as is necessary for the respective purpose or as required by law.
Rights of data subjects
Applicants have the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection and data portability. Consent can be revoked at any time without affecting the legality of the processing that has taken place up to that point. Complaints can be submitted to the data protection officer of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft.
Data processing and disclosure
The Athanasios Association uses carefully selected external service providers for certain data processing operations, who are bound by strict instructions. Data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract. Personal data may be processed within Switzerland.
Contact
Data transmitted in the context of contact requests and applications are used exclusively to process the respective request. The processing is based on consent and is subject to the applicable data protection regulations.
Online data protection declaration
Additional information on the processing of personal data when visiting the website of Athanasios is available in the online version of the data protection declaration.
Date of declaration: January 2025
This data protection declaration guarantees transparent and lawful processing of personal data in accordance with Swiss data protection regulations and the GDPR.