Friade Gotlandsläkaren: "I know that more doctors have done the same thing"

In July last year, Gotland doctor Staffan Bergström reported himself to the police.

He had then helped a severely ALS-sick man to take his own life at home.

And he wanted the police to investigate whether he had committed any crime.

Long wait

For seven months he has lived with the criminal suspicion of "aiding and abetting murder", but recently the prosecutor closed the preliminary investigation.

- I was pretty sure that it would be closed, but I was still relieved, says Staffan Bergström to SVT Nyheter Öst.

It has been a long wait, he says.

- The first interrogation I had with someone took place on Thursday and I was surprised that it took so long, he says.

"I hope the situation has changed"

Now the question remains whether Staffan Bergström can keep his doctor's ID.

That question will probably be decided within the next month.

- It is an open question.

The last similar case was tried over 40 years ago.

Then that doctor lost his ID even though he was not even in the room where an MS-sick man had to end his life, but he had prescribed the medicine, says Staffan Bergström.

- I hope that the situation has changed so that what I have done is considered correct.

Staffan Bergström lives on Gotland and has worked as a doctor on Gotland.

He is now retired and is now chairman of the association The right to a dignified death and has long argued for the right to euthanasia.

In the video, Staffan Bergström talks about the reactions from relatives, patients and other doctors: "Several have heard of it and said that they have done the same thing."