Posted on 17/02/2010 at 14:33 by Ray Duff
-Whilst not directly a Kent based story, there may well be people in Kent in similar circumstances- albeit for different reasons-
BBC veteren presenter Ray Gosling has admitted, on a radio show earlier this week, that he killed his then lover who was then apparently in the final painful stages of AIDS.
This is likely to have happened before more modern treatments became available, though we don't yet know when.
(Remember Kent based artist and film- maker Derek Jarman died of this illness way back in 1991. His diaries still make for very uncomfortable reading during his final months etc.)
For Ray Gosling it must have been a very emotional and upsetting thing to do, especially once the doctors advised there was nothing more they could do. He acted out of love and compassion for his then lover in my view.
Whilst he has now been detained for questioning by Notts Police, in my view he should not be vilified for this action, nor charged with either murder or manslaughter. I have every sympathy for him under very trying circumstances as with anyone in a similar situation.
I back the calls made recently by Sir Terry Pratchett for an assisted suicide law in the UK as already happens in some parts of the USA and in Switzerland etc.
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