The speech on dying you were prevented from hearing

By Michael Short
Updated May 26 2015 - 5:18pm, first published 4:44pm

Dr Rodney Syme, a urological surgeon, has been campaigning for many years to have the law changed to recognise the right of terminally ill people to have the knowledge and means to choose the manner and timing of their death. This is Dr Syme:Through this newspaper, he has openly admitted breaking the law many times by helping such people end their lives by giving them the drug nembutal.