Synopsis
Louis Theroux spends time with those preparing to take a lethal but legally prescribed overdose and meets a controversial group educating others in how to end their lives.
- Programme: Louis Theroux: Altered States
- Episode: 02: Choosing Death
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2018
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