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Another right-to-die case Jun 19th 2012, 20:32 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...on-lawyer.html Quote: People unable to travel to Dignitas face an 'amateur DIY death or continued suffering' the barrister for 'locked-in syndrome' sufferer Tony Nicklinson told the High Court. Mr Nicklinson, 58, today began a landmark application which could open the way for a doctor to end his life. The father-of-two from Wiltshire is almost completely paralysed after suffering a stroke on holiday in Greece seven years ago. He communicates through a specially adapted computer which records blinks and tiny head movements... ...Lauren Nicklinson tells the court in her statement: "I know my Dad, and therefore I can only begin to understand the agony he is in, I know what he had and what he has lost. "This pain is ongoing and there is no relief from it." She also discloses how the family have had to accept how he has "very little interest" even in his loved-ones because his stroke "ripped the very core and essence out of him". "He is forced to live an existence, trapped in a broken body, following someone else's rules, rules that he cannot abide by," she says. "He is living a life he does not wish to live. This is pure torture for him."

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