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...hospital bed. In some accounts - Gosling retold the story in a number of interviews with British news organizations - a doctor helpfully absented himself so Gosling could do the deed. "Sometimes you have to do brave things and you have to say - to use Nottingham language - bugger the law," the presenter declared in one interview. (See a brief history of assisted suicide...
...law has responded. "A 70-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following comments on the BBC's Inside Out program on Monday evening," said Nottinghamshire police in a statement issued Wednesday...
People in England and Wales who assist suicides face jail sentences of up to 14 years under a 1961 law that campaigners have long sought to see updated and clarified. Since the Dignitas clinic opened in Switzerland in 1998, 123 Britons have traveled there to die. The friends and relatives who accompanied them have sometimes been investigated but never prosecuted. Last year, a multiple sclerosis sufferer named Debbie Purdy, concerned that her husband risked prison if he took her to Dignitas, won a case forcing Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer to make clear the circumstances that would spark legal...
Sarah Wootton, chief executive of the campaign group Dignity in Dying, says such clarification is helpful but that the law "needs to be reviewed." Gosling's case, she says, "points to a bigger picture of people being forced to take the law into their hands...
...heard in Nottingham and other parts of England - his "bit on the side," makes him a less than ideal celebrity figurehead for the right-to-die movement. In fact, Gosling seemed determined to avoid such a role, telling interviewers he wasn't calling for a change in the law. "He's an independent man. He's quite idiosyncratic; some might say eccentric. I don't think he wants to ally himself with any cause," says Wootton...