This is the first interview with the UWC professor, whose three-year house arrest is over
The three-year house arrest of Prof Sean Davison, an academic teaching biotechnology at the University of the Western Cape , ends on Monday.Right-to-die champion Prof Sean Davison can finally walk freely in public today for the first time in three years. His house arrest for helping three people end unbearable suffering with dignified deaths is over.
The late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu publicly supported Davison for the compassion he showed to his 85-year-old cancer-ridden mother in New Zealand, giving her a morphine-infused drink on October 25 2006 at her request. “Other people are going to end up in the same position as Anrich Burger . Everyone should have the right, when they are suffering unbearably, with no hope of recovery, to say they have had enough.”
Burger had been accepted by the assisted-dying organisation Dignitas in Switzerland, but understood the cost and misery of flying overseas as a quadriplegic would be huge, and he wanted to die at home peacefully. “Davison is one of our champions. We owe him. He’s a gentle man guided by a deep sense of brave compassion. He knows what is morally and ethically right, and his conscience is our guide.
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