cobl04
45:33
I couldn't find a general euthanasia thread, so I've made this one because this article and pictures nearly brought me to tears.
How could any person possibly deny euthanasia in a case like this?
There's a poll running on the page, Should Tony Nicklinson be allowed to decide his own fate? Of the 11,691 votes, 95% said yes.
Has anyone got a good reason?
'Condemned to a life of torture': UK denies right-to-die legal challenge
How could any person possibly deny euthanasia in a case like this?
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.
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.
Locked-in syndrome is a rare neurological disorder where patients are completely paralysed, and only able to blink. Patients are conscious and don't have any intellectual problems, but they are unable to speak or move.
The judges wrote that they were both "tragic cases", but said to allow euthanasia as a possible defence to murder "would usurp the proper role of parliament".
There's a poll running on the page, Should Tony Nicklinson be allowed to decide his own fate? Of the 11,691 votes, 95% said yes.
Has anyone got a good reason?
'Condemned to a life of torture': UK denies right-to-die legal challenge