Thursday, February 9, 2012

UK: More On Patient Requesting Euthanasia


Here’s more on the UK man with locked-in syndrome who wants to be euthanized.
'Locked-in syndrome' man seeks assisted suicide ruling
Judgment has been reserved in a case brought by a severely disabled man with "locked-in syndrome" who has urged a judge not to halt his High Court action to let a doctor end his life.
Tony Nicklinson, 57, of Melksham, Wiltshire, wants a doctor to be able to "lawfully" conduct an assisted suicide.
He says his life is "dull, miserable, demeaning, undignified and intolerable" and wants his "suffering to end".
The Ministry of Justice had applied for the case to be "struck out". more

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