29 November 2011
Last updated at 07:33 ET
Fergus Walsh
Medical correspondent
Tony Nicklinson is unable to speak
A severely disabled 57 year old man is to ask a High Court judge to allow a doctor to end his life. Tony Nicklinson issued proceedings in a case which will challenge the law on murder.
Mr Nicklinson was paralysed from the neck down following a stroke in 2005 and left with “locked-in syndrome”. He is unable to speak and communicates by nodding his head at letters on a board or by using a computer which responds to eye movements.
Suffer
In a statement released by his lawyers, Mr Nicklinson said: “When the time is right I want to be able to die at home with a drug which a doctor could give me so that I can take it with help and go to sleep peacefully with my family around
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