Short of a miracle cure for Alzheimer’s, Terry Pratchett outlines how he plans to commit suicide:
Terry Pratchett, a 62-year-old British writer of comic fantasy novels who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2007, says he intends to commit suicide, sitting in a lawn chair outside his country home, listening to the classical church music of Thomas Tallis on his iPod, with a glass of brandy in one hand and a potion of life-ending pills in the other.
“Perhaps, a second brandy, if there is time,” the euthanasia and assisted-suicide advocate quips.
“And since this is England, I had better add, ‘If wet, in the library.’ ”
On Monday, Mr. Pratchett will play host to a real-life suicide when BBC2 television airs a controversial documentary in which he helps a 71-year-old man with motor neurone disease kill himself in Switzerland.
