The loud conversation and music from the jukebox threatened to drown out the low-key program playing on television at Tiny Tavern. It was the video version of the best-selling book, Final Exit , being aired for the first time. 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. Even assisted suicide advocates have called the video irresponsible. During the program, Humphry lists various drugs that will hasten death, and demonstrates how to crush pills with a spoon and mix them into applesauce. Humphry cautions that assisted suicide is against the law everywhere except Oregon, Switzerland and the Netherlands.