Poll: Terry Pratchet what the...

[mcast]

I've seen most of the horrific gore stuff on the web, but that bbc documentary was tough to watch.

Cue a million complaints from the general public.

edit: terry pratchett is still alive, he was making a documentary about people choosing to die

 

[TaKeN]

More info please. I'm sitting here with a rather face!

 

[raikesi]

i turned it off 5 mins after i started watching it tbh. i think its pretty horrific that the bbc actually is showing this

 

[dante6491]

Assisted Suicide broadcast of national television.

 

[mcast]

long story short, the BBC just showed a documentary of a guy commiting suicide in Switzerland, he was beggeing for water as he died.

 

[Edrof]

WTH?! Was it Pratchett who died?

 

[Stolly]

ooohhh what's it called, is it on iplayer ?

 

[Posty]

I think it was harmless

 

[Beren]

Grr, you gave me palpatations then wondering if Terry Pratchett was dead!

Not being on the right side of the planet I didn't watch it. Absolutely in favour of good journalism on this kind of thing though. It happens to all of us and definitely think that rational people, especially those gauranteed a horrible debilitating death otherwise, can have a choice.

 

[TaKeN]

long story short, the BBC just showed a documentary of a guy commiting suicide in Switzerland, he was beggeing for water as he died.

Why was he begging for water? I might have to watch this. However disturbing it sounds,

 

[jp_bl_68]

I meant to watch this.

Of all the crap that gets advertised to death I've heard no mention of this being shown tonight.

 

[dante6491]

Why was he begging for water? I might have to watch this. However disturbing it sounds,

The poison he had taken.

 

[Edrof]

I meant to watch this.

Of all the crap that gets advertised to death I've heard no mention of this being shown tonight.

Coming soon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0120dxp/Terry_Pratchett_Choosing_to_Die/

 

[Cosimo]

This is all to do with Terry Pratchett having Alzheimer's and wanting to decide how to die.

 

[Judgeneo]

In a frank and personal documentary, author Sir Terry Pratchett considers how he might choose to end his life. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2008, Terry wants to know whether he might be able to end his life before his disease takes over.

Travelling to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland, Terry witnesses first hand the procedures set out for assisted death, and confronts the point at which he would have to take the lethal drug.

I'll be watching when its available for sure. Did anyone else see his other documentary? I can't remember what it was called but it was very good

 

[spudbynight]

I have a big issue with the BBC broadcasting something like this.

 

[manic111]

i turned it off 5 mins after i started watching it tbh. i think its pretty horrific that the bbc actually is showing this

Why? It's informative and raises an exceptionally important debate.

 

[dante6491]

I have a big issue with the BBC broadcasting something like this.

For what reason may I ask? I think both sides should be shown and then it is up to the individual to decide which side to sit on.

 

[Memphis]

I have a big issue with the BBC broadcasting something like this.

Why?

 

[manic111]

For what reason may I ask? I think both sides should be shown and then it is up to the individual to decide which side to sit on.

Is anyone watching the debate about this on Newsnight? There's a bishop on there who has raised an interesting point along these lines, that the opposite side of the documentary, tracking somebody who had chosen not to die, should be shown in another show.