I’m sorry, but I think our OBSESSION with Reality TV has gone to far. Now, in Britain they have a new show, documenting the assisted suicides of terminally ill patients. What are they going to call it, SUICIDE TV. WTF? Who is going to tune into that and what sponsors are going to sign up for it? Funeral homes, health insurance companies, or drug manufacturers? SICK!!!

Yahoo News Reports:

The scene is difficult to watch, even for viewers inured to the subject of dying by a steady diet of violent Hollywood and television fare. Craig Ewert, a former computer scientist from Chicago, is shown lying in bed with his wife at his side while he takes barbiturates. He asks for a glass of apple juice to mask the bad taste and help him swallow. Then he uses his teeth to turn off his ventilator — and dies on camera.

Britain’s obsession with reality television reached new heights — or depths — Wednesday night with the broadcast of the assisted suicide of the 59-year-old terminally ill American at a Swiss clinic.

Showing the final moment of death had long been a final taboo, even for no-holds-barred British TV, where sex and violence are common, and the broadcast unleashed debate on an issue that strongly divides public opinion.

Before he died, Ewert said taking his own life would mean less suffering for himself and his family.

“If I go through with it, I die as I must at some point,” he says in the documentary, which chronicles his 2006 decision to take his own life after being diagnosed with degenerative motor neuron disease.

“If I don’t go through with it, my choice is essentially to suffer, and to inflict suffering on my family, and then die.”

Care Not Killing, an anti-euthanasia group aligned with the Catholic Church and other religious organizations in Britain, denounced the broadcast as “a cynical attempt to boost television ratings” and persuade Parliament to legalize assisted suicide.

I think this is too much to watch. Celebrity Rehab is difficult enough. I would not want my loved ones last moments aired on TV. So sad, so wrong.