Rational Suicide

Series: Sixty Minutes Series

Duration: 0:16:00

Creator: Carousel Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses interviews with terminally ill patients, their families, and noted advocates of different methods for dealing with dying to examine the question of rational suicide. Contrasts the hospice movement, represented by Dame Cecily Saunders, with the proponents of the right to die with dignity, including Derek Humphry, a British journalist who helped his terminally ill wife commit suicide. Highlights the hospice's efforts to make death less painful through medical care and counseling. Raises the legal question of whether or not those who assist a suicide on request should be subject to prosecution. Concludes with an update. Narrated by Mike Wallace., Uses interviews with terminally ill patients, their families, and noted advocates of different methods for dealing with dying to examine the question of rational suicide. Contrasts the hospice movement, represented by Dame Cecily Saunders, with the proponents of the right to die with dignity, including Derek Humphry, a British journalist who helped his terminally ill wife commit suicide. Highlights the hospice's efforts to make death less painful through medical care and counseling. Raises the legal question of whether or not those who assist a suicide on request should be subject to prosecution. Concludes with an update. Narrated by Mike Wallace.

Complete Record: , Uses interviews with terminally ill patients, their families, and noted advocates of different methods for dealing with dying to examine the question of rational suicide. Contrasts the hospice movement, represented by Dame Cecily Saunders, with the proponents of the right to die with dignity, including Derek Humphry, a British journalist who helped his terminally ill wife commit suicide. Highlights the hospice's efforts to make death less painful through medical care and counseling. Raises the legal question of whether or not those who assist a suicide on request should be subject to prosecution. Concludes with an update. Narrated by Mike Wallace.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.