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A BBC Reporting Religion Audio Segment on Assisted Suicide

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Kendall Harmon

The BBC blurb says:

As a severely disabled woman in Britain goes to court to clarify the law on assisted suicide, could there be a duty to die so you don’t become a burden on your loved ones?

Featured are Debbie Purdy, the disabled woman just mentioned above,John Hardwig of the Philosophy Department of the University of Tennessee, and Professor Hank Jacomsen from a private institute for medical ethics in the Netherlands.

It starts at about 8:40 and the segment runs approximately 9 1/2 minutes.

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2 comments on “A BBC Reporting Religion Audio Segment on Assisted Suicide”

  1. driver8 says:
    October 6, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    I’m sure I’m missing the obvious but I couldn’t see the link to the audio. Here it is (apologies if I am duplicating):

    [url=http://http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/worldservice/meta/tx/reportingreligion?nbram=1&nbwm=1&size=au&lang=en-ws&bgc=003399&ls=p21]BBC Reporting Religion[/url]

  2. driver8 says:
    October 6, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Ah – I copied the URL incorrectly. One more go:

    [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/worldservice/meta/tx/reportingreligion?nbram=1&nbwm=1&size=au&lang=en-ws&bgc=003399&ls=p21]BBC Reporting Religion corrected link[/url]