PARALYSED MAN SEEKS COURT APPROVAL TO COMMIT SUICIDE

Paul Lamb, a man from Leeds, England, who is paralysed, took on the right-to-die case originally brought by Tony Nicklinson, who died last year.
The court of appeal has rejected a request by a Paul Lamb that doctors should be allowed to help him die.
But the judges did allow another appeal by a man suffering from locked-in syndrome to seek medical help if he travels to a suicide clinic in Switzerland.
Paul Lamb, 57, had taken on the case originally brought by Tony Nicklinson, a sufferer of "locked-in syndrome" who died last year a week after losing his high court euthanasia battle.
Nicklinson's widow, Jane, also appealed against the previous judgment which, she said, condemned her husband to a life he no longer wanted to lead. Both are seeking to overturn the prohibition on doctors helping to end the lives of their patients.
Their lawyers argued there should be a defence of necessity available to any doctor assisting someone to die and that the current law of murder is incompatible with the right to respect for private and family life under article 8 of the European convention on human rights. That article includes a right to autonomy and self determination at the end of life.
The case was heard by a high-powered bench of judges: the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, the master of the rolls, Lord Dyson, and Lord Justice Elias.
Earlier this year Lamb, a father of two like Nicklinson, told the Guardian in an interview at his home in Leeds that he wanted the right to end his life at a time and place of his choosing. "When the end comes, I want it to be in here, in that bed," he said, jutting his head towards the bed in his house in the Bramley area of the city. "I want to end my life in a peaceful, dignified way."
A third linked claim was brought by another paralysed man named only as Martin who wants it to be lawful for a doctor or nurse to travel with him to a suicide clinic in Switzerland.Click Here for Complete Story