Full Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die "Peter Smedley" link: http://bit.ly/jQCamb
Final moments: Peter Smedley is held by a doctor at the Swiss assisted suicide clinic after he has taken a fatal drug. Looking on is the retired hotelier's wife of 40 years, Christine. Programme makers have been accused of 'romanticising' and 'normalising' assisted death.
Four senior peers have accused the BBC of running an 'orchestrated campaign' to change the law on assisted death. They have written to director-general Mark Thompson and BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten to complain about the programme Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die.
The peers described Monday night's documentary, which showed the final moments of desperately ill millionaire Peter Smedley at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, as 'repugnant' and 'disgraceful'.
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