- Title: Witness 93: Consider The End
- Date: 2nd September 1993
- Summary: LUDOVIC KENNEDY, ELDER STATESMAN OF BRITISH BROADCASTING AND VERTERAN OF NUMEROUS CRUSADING CAMPAIGNS, WRITES AND PRESENTS THIS ONE HOUR DOCUMENTARY ESSAY ON VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA. KENNEDY, A VICE PRESIDENT OF THE VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA SOCIETY, SETS OUT HIS CASE IN FAVOUR OF VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA, AFTER HAVING EXAMINED BOTH SIDES OF THE ARGUMENT FROM SAN FRANSISCO TO ROME. KENNEDY'S INTEREST IN VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA BEGAN WHEN HIS 83 YEAR OLD MOTHER WHO WAS IN A NURSING HOME EXPRESSED HER WISH "TO BE GATHERED". KENNEDY LOOKS AT THE CURRENT LEGAL SITUATION, THE VIEWS OF DOCTORS, THE BMA, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, DAME CICELY SAUNDERS (FOUNDER OF THE HOSPICE MOVEMENT), AND TRAVELS TO HOLLAND WHERE HE TAKLS TO GPS AND RELATIVES OF PEOPLE WHO HAD DECIDED ON VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA. WITH A LORDS COMMITTEE NOW CONSIDERING THE SUBJECT, AND WITH MULTI PARTY SUPPORT FOR AN INITIATIVE BUILDING IN THE COMMONS, KENNEDY CONCLUDES THAT VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA IS AN ISSUE WHOSE TIME HAS COME.
- Description:LUDOVIC KENNEDY LOOKS AT THE MORAL AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF EUTHANASIA AND ASKS WHY THE LAW HASN'T BEEN CHANGED.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:HED COMPANY
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:02/09/1993
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s