The loud conversation and music from the jukebox threatened to drown out the low-key program playing on television at Tiny Tavern. We hardly ever talk about death.
Nobody wants to talk about being sick and old.
The programming in the Eugene area on Lane County Community Television was the idea of Cindy Noblitt, co-producer of Cascadia Theater of Action. As we become more and more an aging society, the issues of death, dying and chronic pain should be out and openly talked about. With the soothing sounds of an acoustic guitar in the background, Humphry describes how he helped his first wife, Jean, take her life when her suffering became unbearable. Drink that and you will die. Humphry cautions that assisted suicide is against the law everywhere except Oregon, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.