Should you have the right to die?

Chantal Sebire was a 52 year old Frenchwoman with an incurable facial tumour caused by cancer. She was blind, disfigured and suffering intense pain. She died on Wednesday, but she wanted to die before then.

She’d asked the French courts to allow doctors to help her to end her life. The courts refused. Was that the correct decision?

Would you like to know what I think?

Jeff Jarvis is a blogger and he’s really got me thinking on how best WHYS can meet the BBC’s ambition of impartiality. He says it’s time for journalists to come clean about their views. Would it be more honest and more impartial if we told you what we think?

Who has ‘moral authority’?

I was listening to the news about Tibet this morning and one line from Nanci Pelosi jumped out at me. It was this: “If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China and the Chinese in Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak out on human rights.”

Leaving Tibet aside, do you believe in the notion of ‘moral authority’? Are some people or countries morally superior to others?

Letters from Baghdad

There are several of you in Iraq who subscribe the WHYS Daily Email. I asked you all if you’d send me your feelings on the 5th anniversary of the war. These are the replies I’ve received. The rest of you are welcome to leave comments or questions for Rania, Lubna and Zainab. They’ve promised to reply.

Will it get worse before it gets better?

Hello from Newshour. It’s been a rotten week for the financial markets – above all in the US and the UK. It began with the US investment bank Bear Stearns getting itself into such trouble that it was sold for a song to JP Morgan Chase.