Millionaire's suicide at Swiss clinic Dignitas to be shown "live" in BBC documentary...

A millionaire will be shown taking his life at a Swiss clinic in a BBC documentary about assisted suicide.

Peter Smedley travelled to the Dignitas centre with a camera crew in December last year while in the later stages of motor neurone disease.

The documentary, fronted by author Terry Pratchett who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and has become a pro-euthanasia campaigner, shows Mr Smedley taking a lethal cocktail of drugs.

Watched by his wife Christine and Sir Terry, he quickly falls asleep and dies.

Friends were unaware that the deeply private 71-year-old who lived in Guernsey had planned to take his own life until they received personal notes from him.  More...

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