You can't kill people just because they say they want to die.

Its a bad principle. I would have killed my wife a couple of times when she first got bad rheumatoid arthritis in her 20's. She has gone one to run a support group and save the lives of innumerable other people whose starting point has been that they say they want to die.

In fact its a bad thing to kill people. that's why only bad people do it happily and without regrets. Good people who do it in wartime - or law officers in the course of their duty protecting us - they usually are left a bit traumatised at some level.

See the review of Pierrepoint in this weeks Radio Times. This film is said to Timothy Spall's greatest role, has won major international awards, and so far is virtually unseen in English cinemas.