In Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, He explores the realities of medically assisted death. Having been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's disease in 2008, Terry considers how he might choose to end his life as his condition progresses. In a moving documentary he meets those who, like him, would like to control the way they die including a men suffering from degenerative conditions and he is with a British motor neurone sufferer as he carries out an assisted death at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.
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http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/a...icides-UK.html|||That sucks, Pratchet's a great writer. Hope he can make peace with whatever he decides to do.|||The guy has been one of my favorite authors ever since I read The Colour of Magic as a kid. But this isn't something I think I could watch.|||Quote:
That sucks, Pratchet's a great writer. Hope he can make peace with whatever he decides to do.
I've always been torn about the legality of this issue, but no matter what it's pitifully sad that he's figuring his game is played so soon. What a loss this will be...
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