In a moving keynote lecture read by his friend Tony Robinson, author and Alzheimer’s sufferer Terry Pratchett makes a plea for the legalisation of euthanasia.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Tj8N_t_cw[/youtube]
Terry Pratchett: Shaking hands with death
In a moving keynote lecture read by his friend Tony Robinson, author and Alzheimer’s sufferer Terry Pratchett makes a plea for the legalisation of euthanasia. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Tj8N_t_cw[/youtube]
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If as I understand over 80% of the community are in support of this proposition I’d do not understand why politicians are so afraid of the concept.
Moving.
@Greg – Because politicians seem to spend a lot of time listen to the other 20% of the population who are largely hidebound, religious, right wing whack jobs.
Now that was a class act.
In a world where lame home videos, of not much worth, go viral at the click of a mouse.
This was a lovely surprise.
Ta for the heads up Crikey.
It was a deight to be in London and see the BBC broadcast especially with the brief introduction by Terry Pratchett explaining the unusual form of the disease.
I thought the question was so comprehensably addressed that the text should be widely circulated & the debate pursued.
Many thanks to Crikey for so thoughtful a selection. And a huge thankyou to Terry Pratchett & the BBC