Paralysed man asked for help to die, none did, so set fire to himself
Posted in Assisted Suicide, Assisted dying, Final Exit, People in the News, Publications/InternetMedia, RTD News, RTD Organizations, Self-Deliverance, Suicide (rational), right to die on Oct 18th, 2008
The story of the last few days around the young English rugby player who was paralysed after a game accident, and later chose assisted suicide in Switzerland, reminded me of a haunting experience I had in 1980.
When I was at the world euthanasia conference in Oxford, UK, a young man in a wheelchair approached and, [...]
