Week 7

Assisted suicide of businessman Simon Binner

I watched the BBC2 documentary ‘How to Die: Simon’s Choice’ produced by _____. The moving 90min documentary shows the last moments of Simon Binner who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of motor neurone disease in January 2015 and given two years to live. It made me cry and I never thought about this issue before. Simon had to go to Basel, Switzerland where he made appointment in the second largest assisted suicide clinic to die. 

Here in Britain is it not allowed to do assisted suicide. In Switzerland it is. If you want to take the toxic drink that ends you life you have to be bale to lift the drink independently. Because of Binners disease his hand movement possibilities got weaker so he had to go to Switzerland as soon as possible. He could have lived longer if the law about assistant suicide wouldn’t say that you have to take you drink independent.

This documentation and also the short RadioTimes online news report titled ‘BBC2 to broadcast the moment a British businessman takes his own life in a Swiss clinic’ written by Ben Dowell tries to take the fair of the audience about assistant suicide.

I think it’s really important that we talk about this topic. I think it’s a good to have the possibility to choose an assistant suicide but I can also understand that it would cause up uses. I suggest to watch this documentary it makes you think and I can see that you get many different audio responses.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-01-26/bbc2-to-broadcast-the-moment-a-british-businessman-takes-his-own-life-in-a-swiss-clinic