British channel surfers will have the option to watch some rather disturbing footage tonight: the last 40 minutes of Craig Ewert's life, which are included in Canadian filmmaker John Zaritsky's film The Suicide Tourist. Ewert, 59, suffered from motor neurone disease and died after taking a mixture of sedatives and turning off his life support machine. His wife was there alongside him and kissed him goodbye, wishing him "a safe journey." Ewert committed suicide at a clinic in Switzerland, where euthanasia is legal. Ewert said, "I am tired of the disease but I am not tired of living. I still enjoy life enough that I would like to continue but the thing is that I really cannot. If I opt for life then that is choosing to be tortured rather than end this journey and start the next one."
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