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CASE 2
Suicide Pacts Among Friends
(London Telegraph)—Jenni Murray, the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, has made plans to end her life if she becomes a burden to her family.
She said: “When my time comes I want to be able to decide about my destiny.”
The last thing she wanted, she said, was for her children to suffer from her being desperately ill.
She is sealing a pact with two friends that they will assist each other to die if any of them is diagnosed with a debilitating and incurable illness. Methods they might use include injections or smothering with a pillow.
This is despite a law outlawing assisted suicide, which Murray says is sustained by a religious minority.
She speaks of the pact tomorrow night on a Channel 5 documentary, Don’t Get Me Started!, that produces statistics to back the theory that many people in the country share her views on euthanasia.
Her appearance is part of a “personal rant” series in which noted people are given the chance to sound off about a subject they feel strongly about.
Publicity material for the show says that Murray “does not want to look after her sick and aging mother, and plans to end her own life when she becomes a burden to those around her.”
The network said: “Jenni is angry that, having fought so hard to become liberated and independent, women are now being trapped into caring for dependent parents.”
Murray, 56, from Barnsley, South Yorks, has been presenting Woman’s Hour since 1987. In 1999 she was awarded an OBE for radio broadcasting.
Her pact is with Sally Feldman, a former editor of Woman’s Hour, and Jane Wilton, another friend. They plan to sign a written agreement.
Murray is the vice-president of a society that concerns itself with Parkinson’s disease, which her mother suffers from. Her father is a carer.
In the programme she emphasises that, while she supports her friends helping her to die, she would find it hard to do the same if her mother told her “Let me go.”*
Do you agree with Murray’s decision? Does she have a right to take her life for any reason? Is not wanting to be a burden to one’s family a good reason? Should assisted-suicide pacts be legalized? Is it just as moral (or immoral) to assist in a friend’s suicide as it is to directly kill her? Explain your answers.
* Hugh Davies, “Jenni Murray Makes a Suicide Pact,” Telegraph.co.uk, August 14, 2006, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml;eq/news/2006/08/14/nmurray14.xml.
CASE 3
CASE 2
Suicide Pacts Among Friends
(London Telegraph)—Jenni Murray, the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, has made plans to end her life if she becomes a burden to her family.
She said: “When my time comes I want to be able to decide about my destiny.”
The last thing she wanted, she said, was for her children to suffer from her being desperately ill.
She is sealing a pact with two friends that they will assist each other to die if any of them is diagnosed with a debilitating and incurable illness. Methods they might use include injections or smothering with a pillow.
This is despite a law outlawing assisted suicide, which Murray says is sustained by a religious minority.
She speaks of the pact tomorrow night on a Channel 5 documentary, Don’t Get Me Started!, that produces statistics to back the theory that many people in the country share her views on euthanasia.
Her appearance is part of a “personal rant” series in which noted people are given the chance to sound off about a subject they feel strongly about.
Publicity material for the show says that Murray “does not want to look after her sick and aging mother, and plans to end her own life when she becomes a burden to those around her.”
The network said: “Jenni is angry that, having fought so hard to become liberated and independent, women are now being trapped into caring for dependent parents.”
Murray, 56, from Barnsley, South Yorks, has been presenting Woman’s Hour since 1987. In 1999 she was awarded an OBE for radio broadcasting.
Her pact is with Sally Feldman, a former editor of Woman’s Hour, and Jane Wilton, another friend. They plan to sign a written agreement.
Murray is the vice-president of a society that concerns itself with Parkinson’s disease, which her mother suffers from. Her father is a carer.
In the programme she emphasises that, while she supports her friends helping her to die, she would find it hard to do the same if her mother told her “Let me go.”*
Do you agree with Murray’s decision? Does she have a right to take her life for any reason? Is not wanting to be a burden to one’s family a good reason? Should assisted-suicide pacts be legalized? Is it just as moral (or immoral) to assist in a friend’s suicide as it is to directly kill her? Explain your answers.
* Hugh Davies, “Jenni Murray Makes a Suicide Pact,” Telegraph.co.uk, August 14, 2006, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml;eq/news/2006/08/14/nmurray14.xml.