Optimum Online - News - AP News - Suicide on TV condemned in Britain
If one allows their death to be televised, should the family get paid and have the rights to the broadcast sold to the highest bidder? Would you pay to watch someone commit suicide? I believe in the right to die but would feel awkward about watching someone commit suicide from suffering this affliction.
Then of course there is the question of motivation. This kid in contrast, was gonna have his fifteen minutes of fame no matter what.
I guess the next PPV event would be a fight to the death bertween two oppponents from some foreign country and the money going into the pockets of politicians. Why not? What could be more exciting than a sword through the heart?
Who should sponser such an event? Perhaps viagra with the slogan "Give your loved one a firm goodbye."
I feel for the man but am not sure how I feel about this. What is my motive for watching it? If I watched the show, would I take my death more seriously or even have a greater respect for life? I don't know.
If one allows their death to be televised, should the family get paid and have the rights to the broadcast sold to the highest bidder? Would you pay to watch someone commit suicide? I believe in the right to die but would feel awkward about watching someone commit suicide from suffering this affliction.
Then of course there is the question of motivation. This kid in contrast, was gonna have his fifteen minutes of fame no matter what.
The televised suicide in Britain follows a well-publicized case in Florida, where a teenager killed himself on camera last month and broadcast the chilling images live on an Internet site.
I guess the next PPV event would be a fight to the death bertween two oppponents from some foreign country and the money going into the pockets of politicians. Why not? What could be more exciting than a sword through the heart?
Who should sponser such an event? Perhaps viagra with the slogan "Give your loved one a firm goodbye."
I feel for the man but am not sure how I feel about this. What is my motive for watching it? If I watched the show, would I take my death more seriously or even have a greater respect for life? I don't know.