Something Better Change

(From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4325921/TV-review-A-Short-Stay-in-Switzerland-BBC1-and-Generation-Kill-FX.html)

You should also see the video of Doctor Anne Turner talking to Fergus Walsh who appeared as himself in A Short Stay in Switzerland. I would like to think that this drama - like Vera Drake did - managed to show just a story without making judgements either way. Julie Walters is obviously one of only a few actors able to play a role such as this and she was memorable in what will obviously haunt a lot of people. I have to declare my support for assisted suicide but I was nagged by the worry that it is relatively easy to be convinced of the rightness of something by an eloquent, well-educated Doctor. I may have missed similar dramas with different social circumstances but the fact that Julie Walters made this dignified and (for the character of Doctor Turner) without doubts at any stage, will have gone some way to convincing people that this is right without getting them to think about the details in their own situations. My feeling is that the decision is mostly down to the person concerned but every case is different.