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| Subject: 'Condemned to a life of torture': UK slave pen denies serf's right-to-die legal challenge Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:37 am | |
| Britain's High Court has rejected an attempt by a man who has locked-in syndrome to overturn the country's euthanasia law by refusing to legally allow doctors to end his life.
I am saddened that the law wants to condemn me to a life of increasing indignity and misery.
Tony Nicklinson had a stroke in 2005 that left him unable to speak or move below his neck. He requires constant care and communicates mostly by blinking, although his mind has remained unaffected and his condition is not terminal.
Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/condemned-to-a-life-of-torture-uk-denies-righttodie-legal-challenge-20120817-24bya.html#ixzz23mqSWg1f
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