A very sensitive documentary

The death in front of the public’s eyes.

At the beginning I wasn’t sure if I would be able to watch it. To see death is a weird feeling, I didn’t know if I was strong enough.

But, on Wednesday, I thought to myself, as a future journalist you really have to watch it because it is the first time that the audience can see an assisted suicide on TV. So I watched it, from the beginning to the end. I have to say that it was quite hard, I even cried…

It is such a strange situation. It is almost as if during a certain period of time you were living with Craig Ewert and suddenly you are a witness of his death. You see him giving his last breath. Going in such a deep sleep that he will never wake up.

Someone’s opinion on the documentary

 

Marilia Silva, 29 years old and PA assistant in London gives us her opinion on the documentary and on the SKY’s decision to broadcast it.

“It was a shocking story but I was not shocked that this story was broadcast. As it is illegal in the UK and a lot of people do not understand or agree with euthanasia, it was a good way to show why some people feel it is the only option for them.

It showed as well why they will go to a different country, like Switzerland, to do it legally. It was good in the way that it showed two stories: one a terminally ill patient living in constant agony and the other was a couple who wanted to die together and healthy than apart and unwell.

The doctors who decide whether each case qualifies for legal euthanasia accepted the terminally ill patient but not the healthy couple, which shows that although it is legal there are still laws of control on who can do it.

I did not like seeing him die on camera in a room with a stranger and his wife, it felt very cold and calculated but on the other hand he had been living 6 months with no control of what was happening to him and this he had full control off and knew what the result would be, an end to his suffering.”