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Assisted Suicide
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-109309 1/Why-I-want-husbands-death-suicide-clinic-sho wn-TV---wanted-people-thinking-talking-it.html
What are your thoughts on this article? Was he right to take this decision? Is Sky wrong to show it on TV?
What are your thoughts on this article? Was he right to take this decision? Is Sky wrong to show it on TV?
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Respect to the two of them, but i think it is grossly wrong to be showing this on TV.
Death is something we all have to deal with at some point, but is there really any need to "glamourise" it?
Yeah, if they are happy with the assisted suicide, then great, but i really think Sky are doing it for the wrong reasons.....
Death is something we all have to deal with at some point, but is there really any need to "glamourise" it?
Yeah, if they are happy with the assisted suicide, then great, but i really think Sky are doing it for the wrong reasons.....
Putting it on TV is glamourising it!
Why put it on tv?
To get people to think about death / talk about it??
It's something that surrounds us every day - hardly makes a need to concentrate and show one man's death, does it?
I have every respect for that couple, doing what they did, but i totally disagree with putting it on the telly for some extra ratings...
Why put it on tv?
To get people to think about death / talk about it??
It's something that surrounds us every day - hardly makes a need to concentrate and show one man's death, does it?
I have every respect for that couple, doing what they did, but i totally disagree with putting it on the telly for some extra ratings...
Heard him talking on Radio 4 this morning.
He said "If I go through with it I will die, as I must anyway. If I dont I will suffer and die and cause suffering to those around me"
He was clearly "right" in his own mind and it's difficult to argue with his decision.
I think it is right that it's shown. He wanted it to be shown so that people would not be scared of it.
If people want to see goulish stuff there's a lot "better" material out there on the web than than a man dieing in a clinic.
Plenty of footage of troops machine gunning Iraqi millitants, executions, beheadings and suicides.
I don't think film of a man in pain switching off his ventillator, drinking a cocktail of drugs and dying with dignity will corrupt the nation's morals
He said "If I go through with it I will die, as I must anyway. If I dont I will suffer and die and cause suffering to those around me"
He was clearly "right" in his own mind and it's difficult to argue with his decision.
I think it is right that it's shown. He wanted it to be shown so that people would not be scared of it.
If people want to see goulish stuff there's a lot "better" material out there on the web than than a man dieing in a clinic.
Plenty of footage of troops machine gunning Iraqi millitants, executions, beheadings and suicides.
I don't think film of a man in pain switching off his ventillator, drinking a cocktail of drugs and dying with dignity will corrupt the nation's morals
why do they make such a song and dance about this? If he went off and did it quietly no one would bat an eyelid. All this horsesh1t about potentially prosecuting someone for assisting a suicide is just attention seeking cobblers. I respect the bloke's right to suicide, lets stop making a bl00dy circus over it NO NO NO it should not be on the TV in fact it should not even be public knowledge.
It doesn't surprise me that Mary Whitehouse's people are opposed to it but there's no reason why it shouldn't be on TV.
It's not being put up for titillation or entertainment. Handled properly, it could be illuminating and moving. It doesn't feel that far removed from the final scenes of the (multi-award-winning documentary) The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off.
Yes, death is a personal moment but the deceased has chosen to let the cameras in. And we don't balk at showing other personal moments if they're handled sensitively. I've seen programmes about marriage counselling, drug rehabilitation, plastic surgery, abortion, gambling addiction, victim support, child abuse, rape. Are we supposed to turn the cameras off then as well? TV is allowed to be thought-provoking and sometimes upsetting.
Otherwise we might as well just show repeats of Heartbeat.
It's not being put up for titillation or entertainment. Handled properly, it could be illuminating and moving. It doesn't feel that far removed from the final scenes of the (multi-award-winning documentary) The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off.
Yes, death is a personal moment but the deceased has chosen to let the cameras in. And we don't balk at showing other personal moments if they're handled sensitively. I've seen programmes about marriage counselling, drug rehabilitation, plastic surgery, abortion, gambling addiction, victim support, child abuse, rape. Are we supposed to turn the cameras off then as well? TV is allowed to be thought-provoking and sometimes upsetting.
Otherwise we might as well just show repeats of Heartbeat.
If I had motor neurons I dont think I would want to die naturally.
My mother in law died of this and would agree 100% - you really don't want to live through it and you don't want to watch someone you love going through it either.
The point of this documentary is not to glamorise death, but to show how ridiculous our laws are that we would treat animals in pain better than humans.
In normal society, we don't talk about death - we don't talk about wills, what will happen to children etc - these are all important things that really should be known.
I have no issue with this being shown, but I will not be watching it since it will upset my wife too much.
Incidentally R1 - every death now must be seen by a coroner unless your doctor has treated you within the last few days - so if there is an assisted suicide it is public knowledge immediately.
My mother in law died of this and would agree 100% - you really don't want to live through it and you don't want to watch someone you love going through it either.
The point of this documentary is not to glamorise death, but to show how ridiculous our laws are that we would treat animals in pain better than humans.
In normal society, we don't talk about death - we don't talk about wills, what will happen to children etc - these are all important things that really should be known.
I have no issue with this being shown, but I will not be watching it since it will upset my wife too much.
Incidentally R1 - every death now must be seen by a coroner unless your doctor has treated you within the last few days - so if there is an assisted suicide it is public knowledge immediately.
Having volunteered in a hospice and centre for the severely disabled I think people should have the right to end their life when they choose with dignity.
I think there is an audience for it, I'm sure there are people who would find it useful to see how it all happens if it is something they are or may be considering themselves.
I think that is also may make people more aware of the issue and maybe make steps towards it becoming more socially and legally possible over here.
I think there is an audience for it, I'm sure there are people who would find it useful to see how it all happens if it is something they are or may be considering themselves.
I think that is also may make people more aware of the issue and maybe make steps towards it becoming more socially and legally possible over here.
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