The suicide of 59-year - old Briton Craig Ewert is to be shown on TV . Ewert , a motor neurone disease sufferer , went to Swiss assisted suicide clinic . Assisted suicide is illegal in Britain and carries 14-year prison term . Opponents of assisted suicide said , however , the film was cheap voyeurism . No one in the UK has been prosecuted under the 1961 Suicide Act .
The suicide of 59-year - old Briton Craig Ewert is to be shown on TV . Ewert , a motor neurone disease sufferer , went to Swiss assisted suicide clinic . Assisted suicide is illegal in Britain and carries 14-year prison term . No one in the UK has been prosecuted under the 1961 Suicide Act .