I DIDN’T watch the televised death of terminally ill Craig Ewart at a Swiss suicide clinic.

But I’ve no problem with it being on our screens or with what he did.

He said: “I have death. Or I have suffering and death. This way makes a whole lot of sense to me.”

We are a hypocritical nation. Our rulers waffle on about human rights and political correctness and all the rest of it.

Yet when a human actually wants to exercise the ultimate right – the right to die in dignity at a time of his own choosing – we fall back on the kind of arguments that wouldn’t have looked out of place in the Middle Ages.

The fact that the Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to persecute the family of Dan James, the severely disabled young rugby player who also took the Swiss clinic route from this world, shows they have had enough of this farce, too.

We need a rational debate. But I doubt we’ll get it.

We live in a country where our civil liberties are at risk as never before.

Our government wants to control our identity, allow religious law to take precedence over secular legislation, charge us for driving into the cities built by our own taxes, prosecute us for putting the wrong bit of rubbish in the bin, spy on paperboys, fine us for accidentally dropping an apple core and snoop into our health records and our text messages.

Why would they allow us to make the decision to end our own lives when we want to?

No wonder so many people feel so militant about this issue. And I’m one of them.