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Suicide Documentary on Sky tonight - anyone watching?

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Sparkler · 10/12/2008 21:08

I see it was all over the news today. Not sure whether to switch on or not.

news.smh.com.au/world/sky-tv-slammed-over-suicide-documentary-20081210-6v4f.html

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onlyjoking9329 · 10/12/2008 21:24

Whilst i agree with assisted suicide, it is not something that i want to watch,Watching someone die is incredibly painful both for the person that dies and others that witness the death, my husbands death still haunts me 6 months later, i don't want to watch someone else die. i think the only benefit of this programme might be for someone who is terminally ill and wants to see what it is like at the end, thou even then, assissted suicde using drugs is very different to other deaths.

spudmasher · 10/12/2008 21:27

No. Have seen someone die and it is very hard to see. Printed on my mind forever. Just hearing about this programme on the news has made me feel very uncomfortable and has given me nasty flashyback type moments today. Unpleasant.

noonki · 10/12/2008 21:52

I don't want to watch the programme. But I am glad that it has caused so much publicity as I feel strongly that within very strict guidelines assisted euthanisia should be legalised.

spookycharlotte121 · 10/12/2008 22:06

You must be in a very desperate situation if you feel the only way forward is assisted death. In a way I feel that people should be able to decide wheather they live or die. If someone who was able bodied decided to commit suicide then they could do it, but that isnt an option for someone who is paralysed etc.

It must be a horrible situation to be in and must be heart breaking for those arround the ill person. I think politicians need to put their own felings aside and think seriously about legalising it. It goes against all my morals but I kinda feel people should have a choice.

mumhadenough · 10/12/2008 23:43

Such a sad programme, sitting here in tears watching it. I'm only watching it as a friend of a friend is dying from CJD at the moment and I think something like this could help him very much.

What a brave man Professor Ewert was and his wife is.

SparklyGothKat · 10/12/2008 23:52

I agree with assisted suicide, if the person is on sound mind when they agree to do it. I am watching it. I don't agree with the couple wanting a double assisted suicide tho, she is healthly.

onlyjoking9329 · 11/12/2008 08:03

it is a difficult subject, it is hard to undersatnd/agree with it if we are fit amd well, consider this............
you have a terminal illness, you know you are going to die, you know that you will lose your memory, you will be unpredictable and might be violent to thoses you love, you won't be able to stand up or walk, you wont know when you need to go to the toilet and even if you did know you couldn't get there or talk to tell someone you needed the toilet. you can only eat soft foods cos you choke easily, you cant feed yourself and you can't say when you are hungry.
you will be in pain and on top of that you have no control at all on when you die, you just know that you have to get throu all of the other stuff in order to die.
My DH took an overdose and cut his wrists in order to escape his terminal cancer, he ended up back in the hospital who saved his life, he wasn't very pleased to be saved, he told me that the only way that he felt that he had any control over his own death and the way that he died was to kill himself, legally icouldn't let him die, morally i agreed with him as did the medical staff who treated him.
steve lived for 4 months after the suicide attempt, he was bed bound for nearly all of that time.

SpookyMadMummy · 11/12/2008 08:26

I watched the programme, although I am still up in the air about assisted suicide. If I were in that position I do not know how I would feel.
I felt the programme was made sensitively and Professor Ewert was a very articulate man who was very sure of himself. His wife was also very brave. The decision he took had obviously been well thought out.
Whilst I agree that generally people do not wish to see images of actual death on our TV screens, I am glad I watched as it made me more informed about this issue which however you look at it, will always be thorny.

FlamesparodyOfAChristmasName · 11/12/2008 08:33

Oh OJ, I didn't know about that Did you know he was going to do it?

I didn't watch the programme, watching someone's death feels very wrong to me, in the same way that I haven't watched any of the 911 footage since that day (we had the news on at the time, there was no real processing of it though iyswim) - they aren't just buildings falling, they are people dying.

I do support it though, we can choose to bring a life into this world, or to stop it, we should be able to choose to end it too.

onlyjoking9329 · 11/12/2008 08:52

i only saw the clips of the programme on the news, he seemed to know what he wanted and i am glad that he got his wish.
Steve talked about killing himself but given that he was a big tablet refuser, myself and the Mac nurse didn't think he would overdose, Steve spoke to the Mac nurse and she said that althou he seemed low she wasn't concerned that he was a suicide risk, Mac nurse left our house at the same time that i went to get the kids from the school bus, i came back to find blood evrywhere and empty paracetomol foils, he had taken 50+ tablets and broken a picture frame in order to get some glass to cut himself, he ended up in hospital and was then transfered to the hospice where he was on suicide watch, he constantly asked me to bring him meds so he could die. he spent 6 weeks there whilst a 24 hour care package was put in place at home, Steves family blamed me for steve wanting to die, i fully understand why he wanted to die but was unable to help him to get his wish.

FlamesparodyOfAChristmasName · 11/12/2008 13:53

Oh sweetheart

WillburyNibbleQC · 11/12/2008 14:00

OJ, that must have been so hard to cope with. I am so sorry you and Steve had to go through it.

I think the subject of assisted suicide is very complex, and no-one can really anticipate how they would react when faced with an impossible decision about their own death.

I didn't watch the programme, but I admire the family who allowed the cameras to be there.

It is an important issue, and although it is natural for us all to want to shy away from it, there is a valid discussion to be had.

I like to think I would support a loved one if they decided it was the right decision for them, but the theory is so much easier than the reality, of course.

tiredsville · 11/12/2008 18:49

Onlyjoking, I'm so sorry for your tragic loss. (Big fat hug)

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