BBC World Service features a very interesting documentary on assisted dying. Disabled actress and broadcaster Liz Carr visits all the six jurisdictions where it is already legal: Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Oregon and Washington state.

BBC World Service features a very interesting documentary on assisted dying. Disabled actress and broadcaster Liz Carr visits all the six jurisdictions where it is already legal: Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Oregon and Washington state.

She is a staunch opponent of legalising assisted suicide and euthanasia in Britain and she discovered that she is right to be concerned after interviewing people in all these places.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/p014dkr1/

Part One. In Switzerland, Ms Carr visits the place where volunteers help people die; in Belgium she meets a doctor who admits to performing euthanasia before it was legal; and in Luxembourg, she discovers that the law on assisted suicide caused a constitutional crisis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/p014q86x/

Part Two. Carr visits the Dutch group behind the “mobile euthanasia units. In Oregon and Washington State she investigagtes who is most likely to use the Death with Dignity law. 

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