She is the star of Silent Witness, Good Omens and The Witcher, but now Liz Carr is taking on the most important role of her life. Long before her acting career made her a household name, Liz was an activist, campaigning against repeated attempts to legalise assisted dying in the UK. Now she has authored a BBC documentary called Better Off Dead?, a project she has been trying to get off the ground since 2011.
In the show, Liz asks, “If you saw someone on a bridge about to jump, would you stand by and let them do it? Would you support them in the name of choice and autonomy? No, you would probably intervene and suggest they get help. But if it was a disabled person, would your response be the same? Or do you see their decision to end their life as understandable, even inevitable?
Liz meets Amir Farsoud, who has a severe disability, and whose application for assisted suicide was approved even though he claims he told doctors he was applying for it because his benefits would no longer cover his housing costs and he feared homelessness. In the programme, she says, “There are lots of nasty illnesses you might get,” before adding, “I love my job. This is the very best work I’ve ever done in these last seven years and people ask me why and I think, ‘Well doctors like grateful patients,’ and nobody is more grateful than my patients now.”
“It’s frightening because of the polarisation of views,” she says. “If you take a different view, you are therefore the enemy. I am afraid of that, but not afraid enough that I wouldn’t take the opportunity to do this. I don’t think a good death equals legalising assisted suicide.” “There are considerable numbers of healthy pets that are euthanised because they cost too much, because they’re inconvenient, because they’re badly behaved, because they’re not wanted, because they’re a burden,” she says. “These are the exact reasons why I’m afraid.”
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