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The most important aspect of the story is that it is not superficial at all. It is based on real-life experiences where we have seen people fighting for euthanasia and demanding that they should be allowed to decide when they want to end their life.
Harriet Walter and Frances O Connor in The End (Showtime)
What is right to die and why Edie wants to end her life?
‘Right to Die’ is a concept based on the opinion that human beings are entitled to end their life or undergo voluntary euthanasia. Voluntary euthanasia is conducted with consent. It is understood that a person with a terminal illness, incurable pain, or without the will to continue living, should be allowed to end their own life by using assisted suicide or to decline life-prolonging treatment.
Euthanasia pops up in many films and TV series, but in
The End the idea is the very core of the10-part series.
The series opens with recently widowed Edie (Dame Harriet Walter,
The Crown, Killing Eve) trying to kill herself, when she’s interrupted by a fire starting in her living room. Determined, she hurls herself out of a window, but is carted off in an ambulance. This prompts her daughter Kate (Frances O’Connor), who escaped her suffocating British upbringing and moved to the Gold Coast years earlier, to ship Edie to Australia and re-house her in a gaudy, upmarket retirement village, replete with seniors in white slacks playing cards and taking aqua-fit classes; everything the dour Edie hates.