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Posted on 06/12/2011 6:18:09 AM PDT by marshmallow
Fury at suicide on BBC
A DESPERATELY ill man will be shown on TV choking and begging for water before he dies in a suicide clinic.
The harrowing scenes to be screened by BBC2 on Monday are set to spark outrage.
Millionaire hotelier Peter Smedley, 71, was filmed swallowing a lethal dose of the barbiturate Nembutal - helped down with a praline chocolate.
He gasps for breath. Within a minute his face turns red and he chokes as he pleads for water.
The documentary Choosing To Die shows an "escort" at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland holding on to Peter as he convulses on a sofa.
His wife of 40 years, Christine, 60, holds his shaking hand.
The staff member tells the camera: "He is losing consciousness, very soon the breathing will stop and then the heart."
After motor neurone disease sufferer Peter dies the Dignitas worker tells Christine she can cry and "let it all out".
Author Sir Terry Pratchett, who made the programme, says to a background of haunting pipe music: "This has been a happy event.
"He died peacefully, more or less in the arms of his wife, quietly."
Sir Terry, an Alzheimer's sufferer and supporter of euthanasia, tells clinic staff he was "impressed".
The camera cuts to snow falling outside the corrugated iron Dignitas house on an industrial estate.
But campaigners Care Not Killing attacked the BBC for its "one-sided" programme.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Some dignity.
Kervokian said the worst day of his life was the day he was born.
I remember movies showing a society that watching people dying as a form of entertainment. I remember thinking how depraved that society had become....
I never thought at that time I would eventually live in a world that would find death so entertaining......
sad times
I'd be willing to bet that right now he'd give anything to be alive again for just five minutes.
He gasps for breath. Within a minute his face turns red and he chokes as he pleads for water.
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"He died peacefully, more or less in the arms of his wife, quietly."
Interesting definition of dying at peace. Not that I think that people should ever consider suicide under any circumstances, but there are far more quicker, and hence, less painful methods of ending one's own life.
doesn’t sound all that “dignified” either.
Shame on Switzerland for allowing this stuff !
I know there have been some horrid ages in the history of humanity.
But I can’t help but wonder if this is the absolute most death-glorifying culture and immoral of all the ages.
Not so much for the numbers and degrees of murders (such as the 110 million committed during the 20th century to try to make Marxism work) but the purely evil propaganda that those in the state-run media push in order to try to make the murderous State appear benevolent.
Looks like a government with a broke health care system preparing their citizens for cost savings measures. So do your patriotic duty and DIE QUICKLY!
Meanwhile, his “loving” wife and their “loving” children who allowed him to do this (put him up to it?) will soon inherit his millions.....
Not only quicker and less painful...there are far less public way to kill yourself.
He was a millionaire. He could have hired a boat, headed out to the middle of the Atlantic, tied some weights to his legs and gone overboard...without a single camera rolling.
This “Happy Event” was less about the suicide and more about the publication of a homicide, that is, an attack on those who believe in the value of life and how our purpose is to preserve and improve life as much as possible, because that is God’s law.
Just as homosexuality is less about homosexual sex and relations and far more about pushing the homosexual agenda, that is, an attack on the definition of the family and the purpose and rules of sexuality, which are also God’s laws.
“there are far more quicker, and hence, less painful methods of ending one’s own life.”
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Not to mention, he probably paid a small fortune to Dr. Death, when that money could have gone to charity.
How about just closing the garage and let the motor run.
Many die that way, usually unintentionally, but it is quite cheap.
Don’t laugh.
The econazis are already trying to use the propaganda that it is “patriotic” for families to have only two children.
Yep. “Patriotic” because it is for the good of your country to destroy the traditional American demographics because it is good for the environment.
Well, maybe when more people see how "dignified" this death was, it may get others to reconsider this approach.
“How about just closing the garage and let the motor run.
Many die that way, usually unintentionally, but it is quite cheap.”
This is NOT a good idea. Firstly, you might not kill yourself, you might be rescued, and instead wind up a vegetable and be a burden to others for many years.
SUPPOSEDLY, the newest cars emit so little carbon monoxide that this won’t work at all!
BASICALLY, DO NOT DO THIS.
Sorry for any confusion. I wasn’t commenting on the approach. The approach is not relevant. I was commenting on the broadcasting of this event.
I was commenting that the purpose of this event is to brainwash society into accepting that it is “humane” and for the “public good” to kill yourself (or to kill a family member) when the state deems you are no longer an asset but a liability, or when the new Moralists deem your life is not worth living.
Assisted suicide is murder, this is disgusting. How many little old ladies and men who’s heirs talk them into this because they have become feeble and ill, which makes for a very vulnerable person. It would be very beneficial to a person/s that are going to inherit the wealth to do something like this.
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