Today, in an article in the Daily Mail about BBC's Dignitas death programme, there is a poll on the question "Was the BBC right to screen an assisted suicide?"This is just a quick heads-up for the poll which is only run for a day. Tomorrow I'll write some more about the Dignitas "clinic."
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I found the poll and voted NO, but couldn't help noticing that in the article the Mail itself pretty much shows the whole thing in pictures.
:-(
I haven't watched the program, but just the images on that article gave me the shivers.
I read elsewhere:
21% of those dying in the Zurich clinic do not have terminal or incurable diseases at all, they were described as 'weary of life'.
Now this disturbs me more than anything else.
All it takes is a severely depressed individual. Severe depression is characterised by the belief that they've always been depressed, and always will be. This is part of the disease and is of course not true.
However, this sort of 'service', would see many of our mentally ill brothers and sisters die prematurely.
Sickening.
Yorkmum - yes that is indeed a valid point.
When I got to the Daily Mail article the poll had closed. Can anybody give the final result?
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