I am watching the news about the celebrity (although I have never heard of him) who was making a documentary and has in the process owned up to smothering his terminally-ill-with-cancer-anyway lover with a pillow.
The man is dead and buried and no one at the time asked questions so why own up now.
Even a goldfish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut as one of our beer mats used to say.
I don't understand people. Is it like the publicity thing? Any attention is better than no attention?
Presumably he will now be arrested or doesn't it count if you say it on TV?
It's an odd thing to admit. The dead man's relatives would have put their minds at rest that he was no longer living a life in pain, so to bring this up now would be an awful thing to put them through. One can only assume that the broadcaster was so consumed with guilt at his act that he felt compelled to admit it.
The police will no doubt charge him with murder. It's one thing to assist a suicide, but suffocating with a pillow is pretty brutal.
Well they have to investigate now they know don't they.
He is going to refuse to answer questions which sounds a good plan.
I'm not sure, but as it was part of a documentary on death and dying, I think he may have been putting his liberty on the line partly at least to call attention to the fact that the law as it currently stands forces some people to suffer horribly rather than permit euthanasia even if someone has an incurable condition and has stated they would prefer to go painlessly. Smothering, though appalling, might have been one of the very few options practically available to make death quick and prevent the other guy from further suffering.
It is going to be a very difficult case without a victim or a body or a time and place of death isn't it.
Well I'm certainly in favour of euthanasia so if that was his aim it makes a bit more sense.
If it's going to happen anyway I'd certainly prefer a morphine injection to any cruder method.