Sir Terry Pratchet's sincere but powerful documentary shown last night on the issue of assisted dying reduced me to tears.
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| Peter Smedley |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0120dxp/.
I encourage anyone who has yet to watch it, to do so.
As a man of faith myself, I can not better the words of Ollie Dunckley who blogged his own thoughts on this most sensitive of issues earlier today.
In his blog post here at How I see it - Who Really Wants to Die... he makes these very apt comments...
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"Perhaps the most moving part of the whole documentary was the moment in which Peter allowed us to witness him consuming the drugs that would save him from fear and suffering. By doing this, Peter showed people that he had made peace with the decision to die. What a brave man.
"I was quite literally moved to tears. To see a person liberated from fear is a truly beautiful thing. Peter sat peacefully with his hand in his wife's as he gradually drifted to sleep".
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For such a young man of 19, Ollie has an old head on his shoulders and I commend him on a wonderful blog post that deals with the issues around assisted dying and I would encourage readers of this blog to read his views via the link above.
RIP Peter Smedley 1930 - 2010
RIP Andrew Colgan 1968 - 2010
