Sir Terry Pratchett Richard Dimbleby Lecture

Sir Terry Pratchett will be on BBC television tomorrow, utilising the time to give his support for legalising assisted suicide.

Mr Pratchett hopes that a tribunal will be formed to allow people to legally apply for permission to end their own lives at a time chosen by themselves.

He will be making his wishes heard during the Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC1.

The author of the Discworld novels and thought-provoking novel Nation's opinions coincide with the results of a BBC Panorama poll, which will be broadcast immediately before the Richard Dimbleby Lecture, that showed most Britons support legal assisted suicide for the terminally ill.

With more modern thinking and philosophy, as well as the recent acquittal of Kay Gilderdale who was accused of attempted murder after helping her daughter, who was paralysed by ME, to end her life, Sir Terry, who has Alzheimer's disease, says 'assisted death' as he calls it - is 'an idea whose time is really coming'.

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