Home > Soaps > Emmerdale: Marc Silcock says Jackson’s assisted suicide was deliberately ‘horrific’ (VIDEO) June 8th, 2011 by Lisa McGarry. No comments Marc Silcock has revealed that Emmerdale bosses deliberately made his character’s last scenes on the ITV soap ‘horrific’, because they didn’t want to ‘glorifythe nature of assisted suicide. Viewers were upset and emotional last night, after Jackson Walsh was fed a cocktail of drugs by his partner Aaron Livesy. Aaron then sobbed and cried while his lover died in the arms of his mum, Hazel. Speaking to The Sun, Marc said they made the scenes as hard to watch as possible, so that it wouldn’t seem like to easy option to people watching. He told The Sun: “We ensured it wasn’t beautiful – it is horrific, because it’s a horrific thing. “Some people might have liked to have seen soft music in the background and for Jackson to slowly drift off to sleep. “But that’s not reality and not what happens. We didn’t want to glorify it for one se...