ZURICH — A Play in Fifteen Scenes by Scot Lahaie

We are all appointed to die.
Margot made the appointment.

ZURICH  ·  A Full-Length Play in Fifteen Scenes

Margot Crossland is dying. She knows it. She has accepted it. And she has flown alone from Ohio to a medical facility in Zurich to do something about it—a death clinic—where she intends to pass on her own terms, in her own time, before the disease takes that choice away from her. She came seeking dignity. To Margot, this seemed like a progressive and reasonable choice.

She never expected to change her mind.

But something happens inside the clinic—something she didn’t plan for, couldn’t have planned for.

She had buried her doubts in the rich soil of an Ohio graveyard. They made the trip anyway. Questions of hope, love, and faith rattle the cage she has built around herself. And now, approaching the point of no return, Margot finds herself face to face with the questions she thought she had answered: Is this really dignity? Or is it a beautifully packaged lie sold by bureaucrats who have no answer for what lies beyond?

ZURICH pits a clean, planned exit against the messy, beautiful grace of dying well.

Available in print from 1 June  ·  Paperback  ·  2026

Scot Lahaie is a playwright living in the Midwest. His full-length plays include the award-winning Dogfall, Gloria Dei, Purging Mary, Luminarium, Mysterium, Miraculum, Purgatorium, LEAR ReLoaded, The Cattle Baron’s Ball, Big Brother 2024, Mary, Mother of God, and Gadfly.