Pratchett defends suicide film

2011-06-14T08:30:30Z

Author Terry Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's, on Tuesday defended making a film showing a man dying at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland.

Assisted suicide is illegal in Britain and anti-euthanasia campaigners complained that the programme "Choosing to Die", broadcast by the

Patrick Stewart backs right to assisted death

2011-04-17T07:30:14Z

Actor Sir Patrick Stewart has declared his wish to be allowed an assisted death.

Stewart, best known for his role as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek, spoke to The Sunday Times about his decision to become a patron of Dignity in Dying, which campaigns for a ch...

BBC presenter faces more questions over 'mercy killing'

2010-06-12T18:32:27Z

A veteran BBC broadcaster is expected to be questioned by police for a second day on Thursday after admitting he smothered an ex-lover who had AIDS.

Ray Gosling, 70, made the confession in a television programme this week about assisted suicide, ahead of the publication of new government guidelines on the issue next week.

He sai...

BBC TV presenter arrested over mercy killing of lover

2010-06-12T18:32:27Z

A veteran BBC broadcaster was arrested on suspicion of murder Wednesday after admitting he smothered an ex-lover who had AIDS, highlighting intense debate over assisted suicide.

Ray Gosling, 70, made the confession in a television programme this week about assisted suicide, ahead of the publication of new government guidelines on the ...

UK conductor and wife end lives at Swiss clinic

2010-04-16T11:21:20Z

LONDON (Reuters) - Renowned British conductor Edward Downes and his wife Joan have ended their lives at the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, their children said in a statement on Tuesday.

Downes, who had a long and distinguished career at the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010, shows Pope Benedict XVI recording his message at the Vatican for the BBC radio 4 show to be aired Friday. Benedict XVI m...

Britain BBC Strike

2010-11-06T05:31:32Z

National Union of Journalists General Secretary Jeremy Dear, right, talks to BBC employees, some holding placards, as they join a strike outside the organization's television centre in west London, Friday Nov. 5, 2010. A two-day journalists' strike o...

Britain Norman Wisdom Obit

2010-10-22T13:40:13Z

FILE - British comedian Norman Wisdom points out to American film actress Shirley MacLaine, the Duke of Edinburgh's name on a record sleeve, at a record launch in London, in this Dec. 2, 1961 file photo. The Norman Wisdom laughs with the photographer, in Red Square, Moscow, USSR, in this July 18, 1965 file photo. In the background is St. Basil's Cathedral. The UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 14: (NO SALE/NO ARCHIVE) In this handout image provided by the BBC, Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks to an invited audience during a recording of the BBC's Politics Show at King Edward’s college on March 13, 2010 in