Thursday, November 14, 2013

New on NJTV - "Death with Dignity"

  "Death with Dignity"
on
airs: Sunday November 17 at 9:30 am and 7 pm
and Tuesday November 19 at 11:30pm
A flier distributed by Final Exit Network





This Week on Due Process

End of life.  A time few of us like to think about.  But, for some - those suffering from irreversible illness and a certain, painful end - a peaceful death, by choice, might seem a reasonable choice.

On this edition of "Due Process, " what proponents call a "death with dignity."  A suicide with some gentle assistance.  Should there be an individual right to die - if pain, disease and a body that's stopped working have made life less than bearable?

The NJ Legislature hasn't yet weighed in on a bill modeled after the Oregon and Washington laws on "right to die," but polls show the public increasingly in favor.

We visit with a man suffering from a degenerative brain disease, who says all he wants is a peaceful finish,  before he loses both his body and his mind, as well as a leader of the national volunteer organization, Final Exit Network.  And we get a look inside a Swiss clinic where the hopelessly ill from all over the world are able to come for help in dying.

Our studio guests: Assemblyman John Burzichelli, the ACLU's Ed Barocas and Seton Hall Law Prof. Kathleen Boozang.

It's a difficult subject - but a "Due Process" you won't want to miss.

Sandy and Ray

   
Due Process - winner of 22 New York and Mid-Atlantic Emmys - airs on NJTV, successor to New Jersey Network, on the stations and cable positions once occupied by NJN.

Due Process is a production of Rutgers School of Law - Newark and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy with studio facilities provided by the Rutgers iTV Studio, Division of Continuing Studies. 

Major funding for Due Process is provided by The Fund for New Jersey and Rutgers, The State University.      

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