Assisted suicide film stokes right to die debate in Britain

Craig Ewert, 59, a former university lecturer from the United States, suffered from motor neurone disease and chose to end his life rather than endure its "nightmare" symptoms, his wife Mary said. The couple allowed his 2006 death at the Dignitas clinic near Zurich, Switzerland, to be filmed by Oscar-winning Canadian documentary maker John Zaritsky. Although assisted suicide is illegal in Britain, where the Ewerts were living, a series of recent high-profile cases of people travelling to do it legally in Switzerland has raised complex ethical questions. On Tuesday, prosecutors said they would not charge the parents of Daniel James, 23, who was paralysed in a rugby accident, for taking their son to Dignitas in September to die.
An opinion poll published Wednesday shows considerable support for assisted suicide. http://www.physorg.com/news148193458.html

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