The former director of the Central German Radio Udo Reiter is shot in the morning was found on the terrace of his house in Leipzig. Just a week ago he talked about euthanasia in Maybrit Illner.
Just a week ago the 70-year-old sat in the talk show of Maybrit Illner on the subject euthanasia. In Germany the active euthanasia is prohibited. Reiter opened the show with an emotional plea
He said. “If the right to self-determination, the basis of our Constitution, applies to the whole of life as a principle, why should not the for the final stage, the dying even still apply? ”
Now, the former MDR -Intendant morning found dead on the terrace of his house in Leipzig. Relevant information of the “Bild” newspaper, the police confirmed on Friday in Leipzig. You go to the first investigation from suicide. There was no specific offense suspected before, said a police spokesman in Leipzig.
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“I do not want to end up as long-term care, which is washed, combed and cleaned off from others”
Over 10,000 people per year would take his own life. “We need a professional help for such cases,” he demanded in the show. Spoke particularly after the death of his first wife Ursula 2011 riders often about his right to self-determined dying.
At age 23 he decided against suicide “The vitality was more”
Since 47 years the TV makers sat because of a car accident in a wheelchair and did not want to end up as long-term care in a commentary for the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” he wrote in January.: “I want to make this clear to my example. I sit in a wheelchair for 47 years and have still done a beautiful and self-determined life. Eventually it will come to an end. But how? I do not want to end up as long-term care, which is washed, combed and cleaned off of others. ”
In the same month he spoke about euthanasia in the talk show hosted by Günther Jauch. He has, he finds out a beautiful life. But he also says that he then wanted to take this life itself. He had already bought the revolver. “The vitality was stronger,” he says, “has prevailed.” Nevertheless (or why) he is fighting for the freedom of man to a “decent emergency exit”. He himself would not see one day in a situation where his food is cannulated instilled above “and scraped bottom with rubber gloves again”. In February 2013 his biography was published “Allow me to remain seated.”
successes and scandals
Udo Reiter was a co-founder of the Central German Broadcasting Corporation and from 1991 to 2011 its artistic director. He welded over 20 years until his retirement together the three-country institution (Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt). In his time in office were successes, but also scandals. He achieved that the MDR is considered mostly seen Third program of ARD since 1997. Nevertheless, its MDR-time was also controversial. For example in 2001 it became known that some MDR-presenters had worked for State Security of the GDR.
In the summer of 2005, the sporting director Wilfried Moor was terminated without notice due to surreptitious advertising to the detriment of the MDR. In October rider fell because of a joke on Twitter about a Muslim President in the criticism. Since 2012 he was married to his second wife, the former MDR-presenter and author Elsenbusch Heuer
MDR. Especially in these days make the death of Udo Reiter particularly affected
With deep consternation has reacted to the news of the death of its founding director Professor Dr. Udo Reiter of the Central German Broadcasting. “The German media landscape as we know it today, with Udo Reiter loses one of its founding fathers, the MDR a colleague and fatherly friend,” said MDR-director Karola will in Leipzig. Especially in these days make the death of Udo Reiter particularly affected
German Society for Dying With Dignity manifests itself affected
The German Society for Dying With Dignity (DGHS), the Udo Reiter had long been connected, expressed the shock over the death of former MDR-director. “We’re losing a courageous companions for self-determination to end of life,” said President Elke Baezner in Berlin on Friday. She pointed out that rider who was in a wheelchair since 1966, in his book “Allow me to remain seated” and have spoken at numerous media appearances for a right to suicide.
tab is connected as a member and the friendly exchange of views for more than 17 years with the DGHS. So he represented “For the right to Last Help” as one of the prominent and most credible supporters in the current campaign of the company. According to police, on Friday from Leipzig, the 70-year-old rider took his own life.
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