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UK DOCUMENTARY BLAMED FOR BRITON'S SWISS ASSISTED SUICIDE
LONDON, January 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) in the UK has criticised documentary-makers for undermining the welfare and the right to life of disabled people by their treatment of assisted suicide. Motor Neurone Disease sufferer Reginald Crew, who is reported to have died by suicide today, said he got the idea about how to kill himself after seeing a TV documentary about overseas groups willing to help disabled and elderly people end their lives.
Only a few such cases have been reported, but others have occurred without publicity.
Concern has also been raised that the Crew family may have been advised by an English group that wants to legalise killing of elderly and disabled people. If such a group has assisted or encouraged Mr Crew to commit suicide it could stand in breach of the 1961 Suicide Act, which forbids assisting suicide. SPUC plans to raise this matter with the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Paul Tully, General Secretary of SPUC, said: "If the media had broadcast a documentary about the high suicide rate among teenage remand prisoners which helped more remand prisoners to commit suicide, it would be regarded as utterly irresponsible, and the media would bear some of the blame for such deaths. In this case, by publicising the details of the groups involved, the media is promoting death for elderly and disabled people and should be held to account.
See the BBC coverage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2674429.stm
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