A person's right to die has been the focus of many movies and books over the years, including the award winning film Million Dollar Baby and the highly anticipated 2007 release of Whale Song, the 'assisted suicide novel' by Canadian author Cheryl Kaye Tardif.

/24-7PressRelease/ - EDMONTON, AB, CANADA, January 15, 2007 - A person's right to die has been the focus of many movies over the years, including award winning films Million Dollar Baby, starring Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood, and The Sea Inside, directed by Alejandro Amenábar, and EXIT: The Right to Die, an advocacy piece filmed in Switzerland.

The literary world has also addressed the topic of assisted suicide. Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America and Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, are non-fiction books that explore the topic in great detail. And April 2007 (just two months before the release of the infamous 'Dr. Death' a.k.a. Jack Kevorkian) sees the release of Whale Song, the highly anticipated 'assisted suicide novel' by Canadian author Cheryl Kaye Tardif. Whale Song is a work of fiction that was called "moving...sweet and sad" by Booklist.

What other films and books have discussed this topic, and do you agree with how it was handled?

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