TV Broadcast of an Assisted Suicide Intensifies a Contentious Debate in Britain

On Wednesday night, Britons could watch Mr. Ewert’s death on television, in a film showing how he traveled to a clinic in Zurich in 2006 and took a fatal dose of barbiturates. Broadcast on Sky Television, the film, “Right to Die?” is said to be the first broadcast on British television of the moment of death in a voluntary euthanasia case.

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