Child Euthanasia Ethics (1995)

Barcode (ID): 03B0212783                                                    

Main Search Term and Keywords: Assisted Suicide, Mercy Killing, Euthanasia

Date of Broadcast: 21st July 1995

Clip Duration: 3 min 15 seconds

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Description: The parents of toddler Ian Stewart want to have the right to end his life as he is brain-damaged and will suffer more and more as he gets older. There are other similar cases but views vary a lot on the rights and wrongs of making such a decision.

• 2-year-old Ian can touch the roses but is blind and deaf
• In operation suffered brain damage – screamed for days
• Parents say Ian will eventually suffer a long and painful death and believe euthanasia is the only option so he can have a peaceful death
• Young child suffers from cerebral palsy and cries 18 hours a day
• Hospice nurse believes that other families could be in the same position and we should be providing help and the Stewart’s should have had that help a long time ago
• Derek and Lynn have hospice back up and euthanasia is never an option – they believe it is not right for them to ‘play God’
• Campaigners against euthanasia
• Stewart’s believe death will come to us all sooner or later, Ian has had a horrible life and euthanasia will not kill Ian, his heart will

Discussion Questions

• Should we, as individuals, have a right to decide how and when we end our lives?
• How would this change if we were ‘critically ill’
• If euthanasia were to be legalized in the UK, how would human life or medical practices be compromised considering what happened in the Netherlands?
• What is the difference between assisted suicide and euthanasia?
• If people are able to commit suicide/or attempt and not be criminalized, why should euthanasia be criminalized?

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• If euthanasia were legalized in the UK, what could be the possible consequences?
• Since suicide is not against the law, should it be illegal to help someone commit suicide?

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‘Exit’ Case (1980)

Barcode (ID): 12d0595864                                                        

Main Search Term and Keywords: Assisted Suicide, Mercy Killing, Euthanasia

Date of Broadcast: 24th November 1980

Clip Duration: 1 min 16 seconds

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Old news broadcast but still a good story

Description: General Secretary of voluntary euthanasia group, Nicholas Reed and member, Mark Lyons go into Court on charge of aiding suicides with additional charge for Lyons of murder of Isabella Ward.

• Mark Lyons arrived at the court to be charged with 9 count of aiding suicide and 1 of murder
• Introduced by Nicholas Reed to patients
• Found suicide kits at Lyons house and once used a plastic bag when drugs did not work
• Isabella Ward, 90-year-old – Lyons accused of murdering her
• Nicholas Reed also charged

Discussion Questions

• Should we, as individuals, have a right to decide how and when we end our lives?
• How would this change if we were ‘critically ill’
• If euthanasia were to be legalized in the UK, how would human life or medical practices be compromised considering what happened in the Netherlands?
• What is the difference between assisted suicide and euthanasia?
• If people are able to commit suicide/or attempt and not be criminalized, why should euthanasia be criminalized?

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• If euthanasia were legalized in the UK, what could be the possible consequences?
• Since suicide is not against the law, should it be illegal to help someone commit suicide?

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Health – New Group Formed To Oppose Assisted Suicide (2006)

Barcode (ID): 12D0602969                                            

Main Search Term and Keywords: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing

Date of Broadcast: 31st January 2006

Clip Duration: 2 min 42 seconds

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Description: More than forty British people have now committed assisted suicide abroad and a new group has been formed to oppose efforts to legalize euthanasia here in Britain.

• Ann Turner, suffered from a degenerative disease, committed assisted suicide abroad
• Interview with Michael Irwin who has been struck off by the BMA as he helped terminally ill people to end their lives in Zürich
• Investigated by the police for suggesting people to get in touch with the company
• 85-year-old under treatment for cancer was asked by the foreign company on the procedure of arranging his suicide

Discussion Questions

• Should we, as individuals, have a right to decide how and when we end our lives?
• How would this change if we were ‘critically ill’
• If euthanasia were to be legalized in the UK, how would human life or medical practices be compromised considering what happened in the Netherlands?
• What is the difference between assisted suicide and euthanasia?
• If people are able to commit suicide/or attempt and not be criminalized, why should euthanasia be criminalized?

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• If euthanasia were legalized in the UK, what could be the possible consequences?
• Since suicide is not against the law, should it be illegal to help someone commit suicide?

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Euthanasia (1996)

Barcode (ID): 03B0240165                                                

Main Search Term and Keywords: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, Mercy Killing

Date of Broadcast: 13th September 1996

Clip Duration: 3 min 30 seconds

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Description: EUTHANASIA: A look at whether or not mercy killings should be legalised.

• Jane McDonald has chronic MS, cancer and osteoporosis
• Talks about her lack of fear of death but her fear of losing her dignity
• Her husbands says he would defy the law and assist in Jane’s death if he needed too
• Mrs Gardner was with a friend as she died – she did not assist but sat with her
• If she had stopped her she would not have felt right
• If euthanasia was legalised under specific guidelines cases like this would not happen
• e.g. 3 doctors per case
• Netherlands are guidelines where euthanasia is legal
• British Medical Association believe doctors are much better at ‘death management’
• Hospices are greatly improved
• Jane McDonald has a ‘living will’ with her doctor to stop any resuscitation or care

Discussion Questions

• Should we, as individuals, have a right to decide how and when we end our lives?
• How would this change if we were ‘critically ill’
• If euthanasia were to be legalized in the UK, how would human life or medical practices be compromised considering what happened in the Netherlands?
• What is the difference between assisted suicide and euthanasia?
• If people are able to commit suicide/or attempt and not be criminalized, why should euthanasia be criminalized?

Similar Questions

• If euthanasia were legalized in the UK, what could be the possible consequences?
• Since suicide is not against the law, should it be illegal to help someone commit suicide?

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Euthanasia Trial – Dr Nigel Cox – 4 videos (1992)

Euthanasia Trial – Dr Nigel Cox (1992)

Barcode (ID): 03B0107733                                             

Main Search Term and Keywords: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing

Date of Broadcast: 10th September 1992

Clip Duration: 1 min 38 seconds

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Description: A Hampshire doctor is accused of attempted murder for allegedly giving fatal drugs to an elderly female patient who was in great pain.

• Dr Nigel Cox, a consultant in Rheumatism
• Fuzzy Section
• Urged the jury to set aside their judging and opinions
• Administered potassium chloride to bring her suffering to the end
• Detailed the injections in the victims medical notes – a nurse noticed and brought it to light
• Christine Eales, a nurse witness

Discussion Questions

• Should we, as individuals, have a right to decide how and when we end our lives?
• How would this change if we were ‘critically ill’
• If euthanasia were to be legalized in the UK, how would human life or medical practices be compromised considering what happened in the Netherlands?
• What is the difference between assisted suicide and euthanasia?
• If people are able to commit suicide/or attempt and not be criminalized, why should euthanasia be criminalized?

Similar Questions

• If euthanasia were legalized in the UK, what could be the possible consequences?
• Since suicide is not against the law, should it be illegal to help someone commit suicide?

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Dr Nigel Cox – Found Guilty of Attempted Murder (1992)

Barcode (ID): 03B0127736                                                       

Main Search Term and Keywords: Assisted Suicide, Mercy Killing, Euthanasia

Date of Broadcast: 19th September 1992

Clip Duration: 1 min 23 seconds

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Description: A majority jury decision has convicted hospital consultant, Dr Nigel Cox, of the attempted murder of one of his patients to whom he gave a lethal injection because she was close to death and in pain.

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Dr Nigel Cox – Euthanasia Trial (1992)

Barcode (ID): 03B0118882                                                                

Main Search Term and Keywords: Assisted Suicide, Mercy Killing, Euthanasia

Date of Broadcast: 17th November 1992

Clip Duration: 2 min 32 seconds

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Description: A hearing of the General Medical Council has allowed Dr Nigel Cox to continue to practise medicine. The hearing was brought to consider Dr Cox’s conduct in giving a lethal injection to one of his patients terminally ill Mrs Lillian Boyes.

General Medical Council did not strike off Dr Nigel Cox after giving a lethal injection
Pain killers did not control her pain
He said that she begged him to end her life
He said ‘She pleaded with me, “Please give me a cup of tea and an injection so I can go to sleep. I want to go”.’
‘The pain in the last few days was like something I’ve never seen before. She was howling with pain.’
‘I seemed to have no more options left. It was my intention to relieve her suffering. I could think of no other way of doing it than the route I took.’
‘This lady was going to die in a few minutes. My intervention made very little difference except for the last few moment of comfort or discomfort.’
Fuzzy section due to copyright
Jury took over 4 hours to decide
Press Conference Dr Cox gave his opinion on the difficulty of the decision
The family of the victim campaigned for him
General Medical Council ruling was praised by the campaigners on the ‘right to die’

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Dr Nigel Cox – Euthanasia Trial (1992)

Barcode (ID): 03B0031970                                                           

Main Search Term and Keywords: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Mercy Killing

Date of Broadcast: 21st November 1992

Clip Duration: 2 min 11 seconds

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Description: The doctor who gave a lethal injection to terminally ill Lillian Boyes has been convicted of attempted murder and given a 12 month prison sentence suspended for a year.

• Dr Cox left court after being told that his conduct could be explained but not legally excused
• Given a 70-year-old patient to alleviate her pain
• Guilty verdict and prison sentence
• Family of victim speaks out – believes his Mother would be horrified at the sentence
• British Medical Association say should be sympathetic to doctors

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Spider Webs – Use In Chemical Testing (1995)

Barcode (ID): 03B0216735                                       

Main Search Term and Keywords: Animal Testing, Animal Rights

Date of Broadcast: 27th April 1995

Clip Duration: 1 min 4 seconds

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An interesting video on the affects of drugs on spiders

Description: The spiders ability to spin a web has intrigued scientists for centuries but NASA has been carrying out experiments to see how that ability is effected by being given substances like marijuana & caffeine.

• Spiders under the influence of different drugs affected the spinning of their webs
• Different types of web – depicts a normal web with those woven whilst spider are under the influence of drugs
• Marijuana – started normal, not finished
• Benzedrene – frenzied web spinning
• Caffeine – hardly string any web at all
• Scientist provide alternative to traditional way chemicals are tested on animals

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Cosmetic Testing On Animals (1990)

Barcode (ID): 35357(1)                                           

Main Search Term and Keywords: Animal Rights, Animal Testing

Date of Broadcast: 25th February 1990

Clip Duration: 1 min 7 seconds

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Description: Cosmetics companies who refuse to test their products on animals, have launched a campaign against Common Market plans to force them to do so. The EC says all cosmetics ingredients must be properly researched to ensure their safety. Anita Roddick of the Body Shop chain says it is a charter for cruelty.

• May be decided that animal testing is essential for cosmetic ingredients under a new European Law
• Shops that do not practise on animals say they will have to close as they will not conform to the European Law
• Interview – ‘We are horrified, if the proposals go ahead un-amended it could lead to an increasing number of animals being used to test cosmetics and toiletries

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Animal Testing (1997)

Barcode (ID): 03B0273966                                                 

Main Search Term and Keywords: Animal Testing, Animal Rights

Date of Broadcast: 6th November 1997

Clip Duration: 1 min 18 seconds

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Description: The Government has announced that no new licences to test cosmetics on animals will be issued and licences currently held will not be renewed.

• Companies that test cosmetics on animals have agreed after talks with the Government to stop
• No ban on testing for medical research
• Government is determined to stop all non-essential testing on animals
• Only bans the finished products – not the ingredients
• Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop talking
• Campaigners believe it is a step in the right direction
• Now hoped a ban on ingredient testing

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Sheep Cloned (1997)

Barcode (ID): 03B0228919                                                      

Main Search Term and Keywords: Animal Testing, Cloning, Animal Rights

Date of Broadcast: 23rd February 1997

Clip Duration: 1 min 28 seconds

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Description: Scientists in Scotland have been defending a breakthrough which has produced the world’s first clone of an adult animal. Dolly the sheep was cloned from a genetically identical animal at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.

• First section fuzzy section due to copyright
• Roslin Institute, Edinburgh where Dolly was cloned from a stem cell taken from one sheep udder
• Develop new treatments and possibly create sheep that can produce specific treatments for diseases
• Interview from opposition

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British Scientist Wants To Clone Human Embryos (2004)

Barcode (ID): 03d0627446                                           

Main Search Term and Keywords: Cloning

Date of Broadcast: 21st April 2004

Clip Duration: 1 min 44 seconds

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Illustrates the advantages and disadvantage, 2 sides of opinions on Therapeutic cloning of embryos

Description: It’s a question that has divided opinion for years – is it right to clone human embryos? Now after saying he wasn’t interested, the British scientist who brought us Dolly the Sheep is aiming to do just that. He says he’s applied for permission because he wants to study the causes of motor neurone disease. It’s a move supported by sufferers like this man Tim Cooper, from Kidderminster. But does a breakthrough in preventing or treating this kind of illness, outweigh the strong moral objections?

• Tim Cooper says anyone against the cloning of human embryos should try living with motor neurone disease
• He believes it is very exciting and any movement to increase changes of a cure is marvellous news
• Prof Ian Wilmott who cloned Dolly the Sheep
• Dr Helen Watt, expert in medical ethics interview ‘this is not cloning for birth as all these embryos will die and cloning human beings for purpose of lethal experimentation’
• USA Washington – President Bush pulled funding on stem cell research – ‘life is creation not commodity’
• Lord Winston – regulated, it is against the law to do reproductive cloning and will remain against the law in this country’
• If cleared the controversial work could be cleared later this year

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