Compulsory medication for psychiatric patients.

This programme covers several legal/ethical issues. 1)The right to die. Miss B, paralysed, wants treatment withdrawn so she can die - is she competent to decide this? How does her case differ from that of Diane Pretty, who wanted someone to actively kill her? 2)The Reform of the Mental Health Act, White Paper, December 2000, gives doctors the right to impose medication on mentally ill patients who are in the community. What are their human rights to refuse? How do doctors judge if a patient might be a danger to society? 1000 suicides and 40 murders p.a. are a result of psychiatric patients in the community. 3) Is it wrong to pay witnesses at trials such as that of Rosemary West or school teacher Amy Gehring?