Brown: TV should deal with assisted suicide sensitively

BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown said yesterday he was personally opposed to assisted suicide, ahead of the broadcast of a programme in which a terminally ill man is seen ending his life.

The death of Craig Ewert, 59, who suffered from motor neurone disease (MND), was shown on Sky Television last night during the programme Right To Die?

Mr Brown told the Commons it was important the issues were dealt with “sensitively and without sensationalism”. Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, he said: “I believe that it is necessary to ensure that there is never a case in this country where a sick or elderly person feels under pressure to agree to an assisted death or somehow feels it is the expected thing to do. That is why I have always opposed legislation for assisted deaths.”