Britons consider: Whose right is it to die?
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Yesterday night in Britain, Sky TV‘s Real Lives channel aired the Oscar-winning, Canadian director John Zaritsky’s film, “Right to Die?”. As Canadian Press noted, “Britain’s obsession with reality television” was set to reach “new heights – or depths – [last] night with the scheduled broadcast” of Zaritsky’s film, which documents “the assisted suicide of a terminally ill American man at a Swiss clinic.” In the film, the American-born, U.K. resident Craig Ewert, a retired university professor, “is shown with his wife at his bedside while he takes a number of barbiturates and turns off his ventilator. He then dies on-camera. It is a draining experience, even for viewers hardened by a hundred head-banging Hollywood films.”
admin @ December 12, 2008