Broacaster admits to mercy killing

[Don]

You can sort of get a feeling about how the topic euthanasia is looked at differently in Europe as compared to here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 516499.stm

A freelance broadcaster for the BBC's Inside Out has admitted smothering his ailing lover in a mercy killing.

Ray Gosling, 70, made the admission in a 12-minute documentary on death and dying broadcast on Monday evening on BBC One.

The Nottingham-based filmmaker said: "I killed someone once… He'd been my lover and he got Aids."

"I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead... I have no regrets. I did the right thing."

Mr Gosling said he smothered his former lover while he was in hospital after doctors told him that there was nothing further that could be done for him.

"I said to the doctor: 'Leave me… just for a bit,' and he went away… The doctor came back and I said: 'He's gone.' Nothing more was ever said."

"When you love someone, it is difficult to see them suffer. My feelings on euthanasia are like jelly - they wobble about.

"This is the time to share a secret I have kept for quite a long time."

He said he had a pact with the deceased man to act if the pain increased.

When asked by Inside Out presenter Marie Ashby if he had regrets, he said: "Absolutely none. He was in terrible pain - I was there and I saw it. It breaks you into pieces."

When asked by the BBC for further details about his former lover he declined to comment.

"Some know, some don't. It's best that way. Let it be," he said.

He did say he was aware of the possibility that he might be questioned by police about the issue.

Mr Gosling, a writer and broadcaster of hundreds of radio and TV documentaries, wrote a documentary about his decision to move into sheltered accommodation in the documentary Ray Gosling OAP.

The programme won the Jonathan Gill most entertaining documentary award at the Grierson 2007 awards.

[Michigan Girl]

It would be horrible to watch a loved one in such pain ...I don't
think I could do it ...kill someone!! But, I guess you can't know unless you're living it.

[steveo777]

Dude, out of all the news that's out there, you sure stumble upon the most bizarre shit.