[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.

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

I read this to mean
he wants his euthanasia
to be effective

and quick, rather than
drawn out, but probably I'm
mis-reading the gist . . .

[QQQQQ]

I agree with trisham.

It seems like the DEFAULT is to starve and dehydrate people to death, who can't defend themselves. This guy does NOT like that default, that's why he brought his suit, while he is still able to, so as to keep doctors from doing that to him later.

Nowhere in the article does it say, that he wants to be euthanized quickly by some other method, instead. He wants to die, when it's time, not when the doctors decide it's time. He wants to keep doctors from automatically killing him by withholding food and water, when he isn't able to defend himself.

Apparently you have to sue, to force doctors to keep you alive.