The BBC has been accused of a new documentary that captures the final moments of a cancer patient.
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"I know there are those who feel that showing a human death on television is wrong, whatever the circumstances, " the Daily Express quoted filmmaker Michael Mosley as writing in Radio Times.
"Although I respect this point of view I think there is a case to be made for filming a peaceful, natural death - a view shared by many who work closely with the dying," he added.
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The scene, the second time the BBC has screened a death, will go out on BBC One on May 12.
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