Description:People are voluntarily dying before their time in California. Some call
it assisted suicide when cancer or heart disease or painful old age make
the quality of life unbearable. Others say it is murder, that no-one
has the right to help others take their own life.
As the debate
rages over whether euthanasia should be legalised or not the man at the
centre of the row, nick-named Doctor Death, continues his work. Dr Alex
Delaware joins in the argument, but when Detective Milo Sturgis comes to
him with the suspicion that some of Doctor Death's patients are not
willing collaborators, Delaware finds himself on the front line of the
affair, and increasingly believes that euthanasia is not the prime
motivation. So what is driving Doctor Death to kill so many?