Frontline: The Suicide Plan

Take control
This is well done and informative. If you don't want to feel helpless at the end of your life and you want a painless way out, watch this.

Frontline: The Suicide Plan - Synopsis of this documentary
I just purchased this documentary a week ago and also have seen it from my public library. I have been studying euthanasia
and medical assisted suicide for sometime now. Frontline gives excellent documentaries on various types of subjects such as
these. I have stage 4 kidney cancer in both kidneys and severe cardiomyopathy with a tumor on my heart and weakened lungs.
I was diagnosed with cancer in Jan. 2010 and the only states that allow assisted medical sucide is the states of Oregon and
Washington all other states within the U.S. look at euthanasia and assisted sucide as "murder". This is an excellent documentary
for the terminally ill and the loved one whom have to be care givers. It helps you understand what terminally ill patients are
going thru while on hospise care and pallative comfort care. You will see some of the patients and their loved ones whom are
caregivers coping with death and the terminally ill of their loved ones. You have...

Shows Both Sides
When is it mercy, when is it murder, to have assisted dying? Is the Oregon law an ethical choice for those in excruciating pain at the end of life or does it rob the person of redemptive suffering? Is it playing God to refuse help to someone begging for mercy or it is playing God to thwart death by continued medical treatment via machine or other extended efforts. This program examines both sides of the issue in an objective and equal presentation. An excellent effort in a time when society deals with the advances of medical care and the sense that sense is a failure.

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