The Suicide Plan

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FRONTLINE

Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2013

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Suicide Plan" airing November 13 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In this groundbreaking 90-minute film FRONTLINE explores the underground world of assisted suicide and takes viewers inside one of the most polarizing social issues of our time ... told not only by the people choosing to die, but also by their "assisters," individuals and right-to-die organizations that put themselves in legal jeopardy by helping others to die.

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0:00.0	This is an audio cast of the Frontline Program, the Suicide Plan, broadcast November 13th on PBS.
0:08.0	Music
0:24.0	Tonight on Frontline.
0:25.0	I want to make sure that my death is going to be my way.
0:30.0	They can show you how to die.
0:32.0	We lay out all of the options for them.
0:34.0	And help you do it.
0:35.0	Take a good deep breath and you will be asleep in no time.
0:39.0	He wanted you all to think that he had died in our natural death.
0:45.0	A network of people committed to a controversial idea.
0:49.0	It was not about the right to die end of life decisions.
0:54.0	It was about the rule of law.
0:56.0	She took her life and they helped her do it.
0:59.0	Jane was not terminally ill.
1:01.0	She just thought she was.
1:04.0	Inside the hidden world of assisted suicide.
1:08.0	Today is Thursday and on Sunday I am going to leave this earth.
1:14.0	Tonight on Frontline.
1:16.0	The Suicide Plan.
1:28.0	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station
1:32.0	from viewers like you.
1:34.0	Thank you.
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