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A documentary produced by by an awardwinning Canadian director, John Zaritsky is to be shown tonight on Sky Real Lives channel. It will document a a terminally ill man, Craig Ewert swallowing a lethal mixture of sedatives and switching off his life-support machine. He needed a mouth-operated system to switch off the machine because he had lost the use of his limbs. The contrevsial clinic in Switerland has helped over 700 people from 25 countries end their lives since 1999. However there was criticism yesterday from people who saw it as an invasion of privacy, and from those who oppose assisted suicide. John Beyer, the director of the television watchdog Mediawatch-UK, said: “Documentary-makers produce all manner of programmes and no one can stop that or intervene unless they fail to comply with the requirements of the Communications Act. If this programme is not impartial and promotes euthanasia then it would be in breach of the Act; in short, it must not influence members of the public or a change in the law." God forbid someone actually makes a television programme that influences members of the public or a change in the law. Whatever next? Ban David Attenbourgh for alerting us to climate change, ban FOX network or prehaps even censor the BBC for alerting us to the fact that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction…… Serious subject as this is, I had no idea the Communications Act has such a vast mandate. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/final-words-to-her-husband-have-a-safe-journey-i-will-see-you-some-time-1059446.html |