AUSTRALIA: TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT SHOWING A TERMINALLY ILL WOMAN ASKING TO END HER LIFE RENEWS EUTHANASIA DEBATE

Record ID: 983162

  • Title: AUSTRALIA: TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT SHOWING A TERMINALLY ILL WOMAN ASKING TO END HER LIFE RENEWS EUTHANASIA DEBATE
  • Date: 16th March 1999
  • Summary: QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA (MARCH 3, 1999) (TEN NETWORK NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA) 1. SLV THE TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENT STARTING WITH JUNE BURNS LYING IN HER BED AT HOME IN THE STATE OF QUEENSLAND/ SCU SOUNDBITE (English) JUNE BURNS "My name is June Burns I have four children and a loving husband and I'm dying of bladder cancer." 0.11 2. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) JUNE BURNS "Soon I'll be in such pain and distress that my life won't be worth living." 0.18 3. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) JUNE BURNS "I take about twenty tablets a day including morphine three times a day, and I think people think with morphine it takes all the pain away, but it doesn't." 0.31 4. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) JUNE BURNS "I don't want to have to kill myself, but if nobody will help me than I'm going to have to. I feel life is very precious, and I've enjoyed every moment of it and I wish it could go on but I can't -- I'd like to die with dignity". 0.49 5. CAPTION ON ADVERTISMENT (English) "JUNE BURNS HAS THE COURAGE TO DIE, DO WE HAVE THE OURAGE TO LET HER? SPONSORED BY THE NSW (NEW SOUTH WALES VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA SOCIETY) AUDIO OF JUNE BURNS SAYING "I can cope with what I have already been given, but I know I can't cope with what will come.". (3 SHOTS) 1.02 MARCH 14, 1999 6. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) DR. ROBERT MARR, EUTHANASIA SUPPORTER "Each of us should have the right to decide how much suffering we have to experience at the end of our life." 1.06 7. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) DR. DAVID BRAND, EUTHANASIA OPPONENT "In the end we have to understand it's about killing somebody and that's not the hallmark of a civilized society." 1.13 8. SCU SOUNDBITE (English) DR. GILES YATES, VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA SOCIETY "Voluntary euthanasia will be legalised at some stage in the future, the battle is to get it done sooner than later." 1.20 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 30th March 1999 13:00
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  • Location: QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
  • Country: Australia
  • Reuters ID: LVA6UEQ11DD9NHUWL3IGYWP97KXI
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