The Club 72

George Lane was a mid-fifties, middle-class Englishman, heading slowly but surely for retirement. No one who knew him at that time could have possibly guessed that he would spark a debate about life and death and become famous throughout Europe.



Two weeks before his seventy third birthday, he is due to appear on German television in order to explain why he is planning to end his own life at the age of seventy-two. How did he get into this position? And does he stick to his word? Well that’s the story of George Lane and the “Club 72”.