Good morning, Terry.
May I have your bag?
'This is a pleasant place.
'They are pleasant people.'
But what's going on here isn't exactly medicine.
A winter day, a Swiss winter day.
Everything looks lovely.
Can you manage?
Yes. I think so.
I'm just tired.
Lift your legs up here. Right, yes.
Thank you.
INAUDIBLE CHAT
Are you going to have tea or coffee or anything?
I'm having coffee, darling.
Das heisst noch ein Tee. Will er einen Kaffee?
Ja, ja, und einen Tee. Sie will einen Kaffee? Sie will einen Tee.
Peter, you don't mind if I ask you several times -
are you sure you want to die today?
Yes, I'm sure. Yes, I'm sure.
Mmm-hmm. Yes.
I can't believe the calmness.
THEY CHUCKLE
Peter's chatting away as if this is a tea party.
I feel I have very little choice, really, in the grand design.
Unfortunately we have papers to fill out. Of course. Yes, I understand.
Maybe want one for you too?
I'm sorry for all this paperwork, but it's necessary.
That's all right, of course I understand.
That's fine, it all makes perfect good sense.
OK.
Shall I take the initial...?
Don't ask me. It's your decision, darling. Yes.
I'll take it. It's just the timing.
I'm quite prepared to do it now.
When you're ready.
Yes. Yes, yes.
So I shall go and prepare the drops?
Yes, please. I'll be back in a minute.
Thank you, Erika. You're welcome.
Right.
Right. Thank you. The drops for the stomach. Yes?
Yes.
Right? Taste OK too?
Yes, the taste is not bad.
No cup of tea or something to drink?
No. I've had my drink now.
That'll do me.
THEY LAUGH
That was fairly innocuous, I must say, that drink.
The next one is the...
The killer?
Oh, yes!
Take these with the pills.
Tell me which ones you like.
I don't think it will matter a great deal. Praline?
The blues are always good.
This one here? No, that one and that one.
Not the praline?
How long have we been here, by the way?
I think you said it was quarter past.
Ten minutes...it's 25. Oh. Minutes past.
It's funny, strange how time
has different values at different occasions.
Not that I'm in a hurry. But I'm just...
Just interested to know how long we've been...
Move my foot there, that's better.
Shall I be away? No.
No, I'd rather you... Well, if you don't mind.
You shouldn't be away from him.
Well, if you really want to be away from him. But, er...
No, I just didn't want to be appearing to assist him.
No, I don't think that would be the case.
Peter Lawrence Smedley,
are you sure that you want to drink this medicament
with which
you will sleep
and die?
Yes, I'm quite sure that's what I want to do.
I give you the medicament.
You're sure? I'm sure.
Thank you.
You can have chocolate now.
Oh. What a ghastly taste.
Worse than the one before this? Yes.
Well, yeah.
Bye-bye, Peter. Bye-bye, Erika.
Thank you for looking after me.
And I'd like to thank everybody else.
They've been first class too.
Terry... Goodbye. It's been a privilege.
My wife's very good at putting me to sleep just by rubbing my hands.
Be strong, my darling. I will.
Just relax. Yup.
PETER GROANS
Water.
No. No water.
No... Water...
STUTTERY COUGHING
SNORING
He's sleeping now, very deep.
No pain at all.
He's snoring and sleeping very, very deep. He feels unconsciousness,
and then afterwards the breathing will stop,
and then the heart.
Are you all right, Terry?
I'm fine.
Well...for a given value of fine!
It's what he wanted.
He was ready to go. Yes.
Now you are allowed to cry.
Let it come out. It does you good.
Everything you kept inside until now, let it out.
I don't think I can do that.
It's hard to believe that I've seen a death.
I'm fine, yeah.
His wife is now bustling off to organise something,
but I can totally understand why.
Can I say that I was extremely impressed by how it was done.
I thought that was wonderful.
Thank you, Terry.
As for his wife, makes me proud to be English.
LAUGHTER
This has been a happy event.
We've seen a man die peacefully,
more or less in the arms of his wife.
Quite quietly,
so that we never...
were actually certain exactly when he passed away.
And when one thinks of all the other ways
a person can die, and in what circumstances,
that would count, as they say, as a result.
In this time, in this place,
there's something good about the snow.
Yeah. It's the right kind of snow.
I was in the presence of the bravest man I'd ever met.
I'm not certain I could do that.
I'm not certain that my hand wouldn't shake.
But then I'm not certain what I would really do
if I was really there.
I want to stay around as long as I can,
to see assisted dying done properly in the UK.
Well, if I die... I don't mean if I die!
When I die - and all men die - I would like to die
out in the sunshine.
Hmm.
I suppose sometimes the sun shines in Switzerland.
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