THE BBC announced that on February 10 it will “show a British businessman taking his own life at a Swiss suicide clinic (sic) last year” in a 90 minute documentary “following the declining health of Simon Binner”, a 57-year-old with motor neurone disease who “announced on Linkedln that he planned to end his life at the Eternal Spirit clinic in Basel”. 
 The BBC continues to wage a one-sided campaign to legalise suicide for the disabled, even though in Holland and Belgium it has transmuted into euthanasia without consent, and people are killing themselves to avoid disability and old age. 
Parliament, which only last year resoundingly defeated an assisted suicide Bill, should order an enquiry into the BBC spending the licence fee on aiding and abetting the suicide of a disabled person.  
One might think this announcement on Holocaust Memorial Day suffered from unfortunate timing, but the ‘right to die’ campaign has consistently stressed the difference between disabled people being killed because they are a burdens, and disabled people killing themselves because they do not wish to become burdens. 
But whether murder or self-murder, the question is cui bono – who benefits?
 
Norman Plaisted
Vivian Road
Newport