Christian Rossiter has proven his legal right to die and declared himself a champion of other quadriplegics who no longer find life worth living.
An Australian state Supreme Court ruled Friday that a nursing home in the west coast city of Perth must respect the 49-year-old patient’s decision to starve to death.
His case adds to international arguments among euthanasia advocates, religious groups, lawyers and ethicists about where the state’s duty to preserve life ends.
“I’m happy that I won my right to die,” the former stockbroker and mountaineer told reporters from his nursing home bed where he is fed by a tube.
There is a HUGE difference between a man refusing medical care, letting nature takes its course, and dying as result of that decision and taking active measures to hasten death – such as an intentional drug overdose. Although I have mixed feelings about intraveneous feeding – you can see that either as medicine or as food.
YBIC,
Phil Snyder