Thursday, June 16, 2011

Heavy Complaints Over Airing of Assisted Suicide

BBC Receives Heavy Complaints Over Airing of Assisted Suicide | LifeNews.com: The BBC has received hundreds of complaints from views over a program it aired Monday night showing an assisted suicide of a person killing himself at a suicide tourism facility in Switzerland.

The program was hosted by Sir Terry Pratchett and it showed millionaire Peter Smedley taking a lethal cocktail of drugs that resulted in his death. Almost 900 people contacted the BBC to complain while just 82 supported the showing of the program.

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