Category Archives: pro death

Wonder what you make of the BBC’s coverage of the victory that MS sufferer Debbie Purdy has had concerning her battle to have the law on assisted suicide clarified? She wanted to know if her husband would be prosecuted if he helped her end her life in Switzerland. The DPP must now clarify the position. It strikes me that the BBC is almost celebratory in tone and clearly in sympathy with the aims of Mrs Purdy. The counterview is buried at the very bottom of the extensive item. Whilst we will all feel sympathy for the likes of those such as Mrs Purdy nonetheless there is a substantive body of opinion which does not support assisted suicide and I wish the BBC would provide it with the same sympathy as it does Mrs Purdy.