{"id":290527,"date":"2023-05-07T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=290527"},"modified":"2023-05-05T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:16:14","slug":"million-little-things-finale-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/million-little-things-finale-assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A Million Little Things’ finale features a main character undergoing assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ABC series “A Million Little Things” had its series finale this week, and it ended with a main character undergoing assisted suicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show features a tight-knit group of friends who, at the beginning of the series, were horrified when one of the members of their group committed suicide. Two of the characters in the show, Gary and Maggie, are in a relationship and are both breast cancer survivors. Unfortunately for Gary, however, his cancer returns as lung cancer.<\/p>\n

Rather than promoting hospice and palliative care, the showrunners decided to promote assisted death.<\/p>\n

Gary is portrayed as having lost any semblance of quality of life, being confined to a hospital bed and no longer able to speak. His friends and wife, however, remain devoted to caring for him. In a flashback, Gary is shown asking his friends for help to end it.<\/p>\n

“Guys, I’m serious,” he said. “If by some chance things go south, I do not want to be stuck in some hospital bed in pain, crapping myself and wasting away into nothing. So, if we get to that point \u2014 which we won’t \u2014 I need you to go see Kevin, okay? He’ll know why you’re there.”<\/p>\n