Title of the Article: TV Broadcast of an Assited Suicide Intensifies a Contentious Debate in Britain.
Author: Sarah Lyall
Date of Publication: December 11, 2008
Source: The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/world/europe/11suicide.html?ref=world
Garcia Fernandez, Gabriela
Assisted suicide is illegal in most of the world’s countries. However, the practise of it increase year after year. New cases are revelead every year which encourage people with fatal diseases to think of assisted suicide as an option to end the suffering.
As the article explains “it’s illegal in Britain to aid, abet, cousel ar procure suicide.” Dispite of what the law says, there has recently been in case of assited suicide in London, which caused a great deal of debate. A man almost completely incapacitated by motor neuron disease decided to kill himself. He was help to do so by his own wife, who took him to Dignitas Clinic, a Swiss clinic famouse for offering this kind of service.
It is believed that almost 100 Britons have already committed suicide in Dignitas Clinic. In it, the man took a fatal mixture of barbiture. He also allowed the cameras to film his last moments which was later on broadcasted on Sky Television as a film called ‘Right to Die?’
This case “throw a bomb into an already contentious debate”. Britain’s director of public prosecutions announced that he would not charged this man’s wife, as he did not charge other people also involved in cases of Assited Suicide. His decision is based basically on the fact that cases of Assited Suicide have often provoked police investigation in Britain but they never end in prosecutions, and people are rarely send to jail. Because of this, it’s strongly believed that law is simply not working.
Oregon, Washington State, Switzerland and the Netherlands are the only places that allow Assited Suicide and only according to strict criteria. In the rest of the world, as in Britain, people who are suffering a fatal medical condition or paralysis are forced to go abroad to die because they have no other option.
The law against Assisted Suicide is supported in Britain on the belief that “it is necessary to ensure that there’s never a case in the country where a sick or elderly person feels under pressure to agree to an assited death”. Unfourtunately, to those who are in that condition, reality is quite the opposite and in most of the cases they really feel that Assited Suicide is the expecting thing to do.
Author: Sarah Lyall
Date of Publication: December 11, 2008
Source: The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/world/europe/11suicide.html?ref=world
Garcia Fernandez, Gabriela
Assisted suicide is illegal in most of the world’s countries. However, the practise of it increase year after year. New cases are revelead every year which encourage people with fatal diseases to think of assisted suicide as an option to end the suffering.
As the article explains “it’s illegal in Britain to aid, abet, cousel ar procure suicide.” Dispite of what the law says, there has recently been in case of assited suicide in London, which caused a great deal of debate. A man almost completely incapacitated by motor neuron disease decided to kill himself. He was help to do so by his own wife, who took him to Dignitas Clinic, a Swiss clinic famouse for offering this kind of service.
It is believed that almost 100 Britons have already committed suicide in Dignitas Clinic. In it, the man took a fatal mixture of barbiture. He also allowed the cameras to film his last moments which was later on broadcasted on Sky Television as a film called ‘Right to Die?’
This case “throw a bomb into an already contentious debate”. Britain’s director of public prosecutions announced that he would not charged this man’s wife, as he did not charge other people also involved in cases of Assited Suicide. His decision is based basically on the fact that cases of Assited Suicide have often provoked police investigation in Britain but they never end in prosecutions, and people are rarely send to jail. Because of this, it’s strongly believed that law is simply not working.
Oregon, Washington State, Switzerland and the Netherlands are the only places that allow Assited Suicide and only according to strict criteria. In the rest of the world, as in Britain, people who are suffering a fatal medical condition or paralysis are forced to go abroad to die because they have no other option.
The law against Assisted Suicide is supported in Britain on the belief that “it is necessary to ensure that there’s never a case in the country where a sick or elderly person feels under pressure to agree to an assited death”. Unfourtunately, to those who are in that condition, reality is quite the opposite and in most of the cases they really feel that Assited Suicide is the expecting thing to do.
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