News that Sky is preparing to broadcast a documentary tonight that includes footage of a man’s assisted suicide at a Swiss clinic has drawn conflicting coverage in today’s papers.

Craig Ewert, a 59-year-old retired university professor with motor neurone disease, will be seen drinking a lethal dose of barbiturates before turning off his ventilator with a mouth-operated switch in tonight’s “Right to Die” documentary on Sky Real Lives.

In the Mirror, Paul Routledge says it is ‘a television version of public hangings,’adding that ‘Sky TV is chasing ratings, not a deeper understanding of why people take their own life”.