In Tony Nicklinson's heroic suffering, I can't help but see the case for life

[ljtaylor]

It is harrowing to watch the anguish of a man who wants to end his life but cannot - yet his message somehow backfires

Comments

[tabaqui]

Gah, fuck this asshat.

The comments at the source are excellent, at least as far as i read.

[mollywobbles867]

What a pretentious asshole. This man is not a goddamn painting to be analyzed by art students. He is a man who doesn't want to live another 20 years or more locked in his body. So unless there is a cure on the horizon, he should be allowed to end his own mental and emotionally suffering. His problem isn't something that will get better with time. It will stay the same.

[wrestlingdog]

Oh, for fuck's sakes.

This is not about a man being "put to death." This is about a man with a disease that many consider the stuff of nightmares being denied bodily autonomy just because some schmuck thinks his suffering is ~*~inspirational~*~ and ~*~aesthetically pleasing~*~.

[celtic_thistle]

That should make us wonder about the wisdom of ever making it permissible to end this terrible marvellous thing called life.

Yes, it sounds like his life is SO marvellous. ia, OP, he's not a fucking display or object lesson. He's a person who deserves to decide his own fate.

[halfshellvenus]

Is that someone who should be put to death, however "good" the intentions?

"Put to death" and "allowed to die" are not the same thing here.

This poor man knows what he wants, and any person with a heart understands WHY that's what he wants.

What's "monstrous" is to turn him into a symbol or any other abstraction rather than the human being he is: a man who has lost the ability to live as he pleases, and is now seeking the right to die when he pleases.