RIP Tony Nicklinson at peace at last.

[LochNessMonster]

Tony Nicklinson who has died at home it has been announced, hope his family get the chance to grief with the newspapers get their way.

The courts hands were tied, so RIP Tony !

[boxtops]

I'm sorry LNM, who is he?

[boxtops]

sorry, just seen dodger's similar post http://www.theanswerb.../Question1163662.html

[Mampara]

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1163662.html

[ummmm]

Boxy. He was the man fighting for the right to die.

[boxtops]

A blessed release for him

[LochNessMonster]

The fellow who has been fighting for the right to die, he suffered for years with locked in syndrome.

[Kiki-frog]

That poor man. His family have been through so much - I hope they are left in peace to grieve.

[Duncer]

Seeing his distress at the recent ruling is one of the most upsetting things I have ever seen. I truly am glad that he has finally found the release he wanted.

[bert_h]

But his attitude was in marked contrast to Stephen Hawking's, over an almost identical disability.

[ummmm]

People deal with things differently.

[marval]

At last he got his wish, my thoughts and prayers are with the family. Rest in peace Tony.

[jno]

But his attitude was in marked contrast to Stephen Hawking's, over an almost identical disability.

Indeed it was. My attitudes are probably different from yours, and from Her Majesty the Queen's. Shouldn't we all be allowed the power to act on our own attitudes rather than someone else's?

[QueenOfGoths]

Bert-h I dont think there is a 'one fits all' attitude when it comes to people with the same disability or medical condition.

Interesting Breakfast news had a piece this morning about a man sufferting from LIS, he wanted to continue living however he also supported Tony Nickelson's right to die campaign

[Brenden]

R.I.P. Tony, I am apalled that Tony Nicklinson was refused the right to die when our King George V was given a lethal injection of morphine and cocaine to spare the family any more suffering.

[DTCwordfan]

How do you know that he wasn't quietly "assisted", brenden.

[Brenden]

D.T I hope he was, if I had been in his shoes it would be what I would wish for.

[DTCwordfan]

So would I.....saw it with cancer in the old man.....they kept his morphine levels up and the food down so to speak....he didn't know where he was and it spared his suffering.

[bert_h]

Things have certainly changed since 1935. It was even worse than Brendan says - that lethal injection wasn't even to 'spare the family suffering', it was to make sure the death was announced in the next morning's quality broadsheets instead of in the evening tabloids.

[jake-the-peg]

I hate to say it but I hope he was "helped" and I hope the investigate and prosecute the person involved.

A high profile proescution like that would spark all sorts of protests and might just be the needed push to have the law changed

[ummmm]

He's been fighting for the right to die for quite some time. Maybe losing the case just made him give up, he had nothing else to fight for.

I can't see anyone assisting his death so soon after the court ruling.