2024 Grierson Nominated - Best Science Documentary

A documentary on assisted suicide, authored by actor and disability rights activist Liz Carr. Liz fears disabled lives will be put at risk if the law against assisted suicide is altered.

Travelling to Canada, Liz explores the repercussions of some of the most permissive assisted suicide laws in the world. Here Liz is confronted with a law that can end the lives of not just the terminally ill but people who are disabled and those who are offered a medically assisted death as a ‘way out’ of social deprivation.

In a society where disabled people are often told they are ‘better off dead’ than disabled, Liz asks: ‘Should we really be giving more power to end that group of people’s lives?’

★★★★★ “Liz Carr’s blistering film may well change your mind about assisted dying” – The Guardian

★★★★ “forceful documentary” - The i paper

Documentary film
1 x 60 mins

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