A step too far
The last time i checked it was illegal to commit suicide in the UK, an rightly so. But tonight a Sky channel will show a film of a University professor committing suicide in a Switzerland Death Center.
Craig Ewert, 59, will be filmed has his wife watches him switch off his life support unit and take an over dose of lethal drugs. Why would anyone be entertained by this or get any benefit from watching a grown man take his life. I understand the reasons for doing this, quality of life and all that but really is this a step too far? I just hope that this sort of thing doesn't reach our TV channels.
5 comments:
simple...don't watch..nor should anybody.
Certainly anyone watching that would be well aware beforehand what they were about to see, and have a clear choice whether to do so or not. I can see very valid reasons to watch that.
If I were dying of a painful disease and considering assisted suicide, I'd consider that program to be highly educational. It would help me make the decision to do it or not.
The issue of assisted suicide keeps coming up on the ballot. My neighbor state, Oregon, has legalized it and Washington did this last election. Seeing it in actual practice would certainly help voters decide.
I have a lung condition that may one day force me to carry around an oxygen bottle, and if that day comes, I plan on killing myself. I would much prefer a gentle death to a violent one.
The people at the TV channel who decided this would pass for entertainment should lose their jobs.
So what? He deserved it, the cunt.
Learn from the P.
Have to disagree with you on a couple of points.
1-committing suicide is legal. In the old days, if you killed yourself you could be found guilty of murder, though not any more. "Assisted suicide" (or euthanasia) is, however, illegal in this country.
2-the program aims to challenge perceptions and inform debate, which it does. I for one tire of TV channels simply skirting around sensitive issues, when what they really need to do is confront them and bring home the reality to the masses of TV-entranced zombies. I for one am of the view that this man's life is his property. If he wishes to end it because he would rather not live with the indignity of not having bowel control and requiring 24hr care, then that is his decision to make.
A lot of the problems with "assisted suicide" stem from the fact that politicos and medicos fear that some people may use it kill off relatives to claim inheritance or some-such. However, with the introduction of some simple safeguards (a register of intent, perhaps?) things like that would be confined to Poirot stories where they belong.
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