[theFIRMbss]

>"I just do not want to effectively die of starvation and thirst which may take up to two weeks. I want as far as possible to be able to approach the end of my life with dignity," he told Sky News.
>>So the right to die morphs into the duty to die whether you want to or not.

Did you read the piece?
It's about a guy himself
choosing the methods

he wants put in place
in his own case. He doesn't
want a dragged-out end.

[trisham]

"Did you read the piece? It's about a guy himself choosing the methods"

Last year 45-year-old Leslie Burke, who has a degenerative brain condition, won a court ruling to stop doctors letting him starve to death should he become too ill to feed himself or communicate.

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My understanding is that he does not want to die like Terri Schiavo.