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Terry Pratchett Considers Assisted Suicide

cHALiTO writes "Beloved science fiction and fantasy writer Terry Pratchett has terminal early-onset Alzheimer's. He's determined to have the option of choosing the time and place of his death, rather than enduring the potentially horrific drawn-out death that Alzheimer's sometimes brings. But Britain bans assisted suicide, and Pratchett is campaigning to have the law changed. As part of this, he has visited Switzerland's Dignitas clinic, an assisted suicide facility, with a BBC camera crew, as part of a documentary that will include Britain's first televised suicide. Pratchett took home Dignitas's assisted suicide consent forms."

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  1. Re:Well shit by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have I touched a nerve, Anonymous Go Coward?

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  2. Re:Well shit by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Explain.

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