Disabled suicide left ‘no choice’ A disabled man who wrote to President Sarkozy demanding the right to die has killed himself prompting fresh debate over the legalisation of euthanasia.
How should the end come? Longer life spans and changing attitudes towards care and hospital treatment mean attitudes towards dying and euthanasia are complicated, writes Katharine Whitehorn.
A Short Stay In Switzerland by Julie Walters for BBC1 TV (for transmission Winter 2009). Julie Walters is to take on the factually-inspired story of Dr Anne Turner, who planned her own assisted suicide at Dignitas in Switzerland in January 2006.