assisted suicide of motorneuronedisease patient Craig Ewert

This can for some be a controversial or even shocking video.

(note: it does show Craig Ewert, a man with an incurable disease, taking medicines that end his life, and is part of a documentary on Sky)

"Watching a man drink liquid through a pink straw, ask for apple juice and music, then close his eyes and lie back on his pillows is intense, moving and tragic. It should make us think and talk about death, as we did when we were children and asked our parents if we would ever die. Too many grown ups push away that question forever – dispensing with the memento mori, the reminder of mortality, that has been part of human culture for thousands of years.

Television rarely takes us beyond the comfortable and rarely challenges our humanity. That's not surprising. It's the nature of the beast. But on those rare occasions when it truly offers us more than a soothing smile, we should applaud its courage. If we want, we can always turn away. We can ignore the issue and our own mortality"

From a Guardian Article on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/10/assisted-suicide-television

Another article in Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5315633.ece

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