Tony Nicklinson, a victim of \u2018locked-in\u2019 syndrome is being encouraged to choose life via Twitter<\/a>. He\u2019s previously made a request to a court for assisted suicide, but there\u2019s a lot of encouragement for him not to go through with it (as well as others praising him for \u2018seeking his rights\u2019). It doesn\u2019t seem to have got through to him \u2013 yet. Oremus.<\/p>\nEncouraging him to choose life is a good thing you can do.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tony Nicklinson, a victim of \u2018locked-in\u2019 syndrome is being encouraged to choose life via Twitter. He\u2019s previously made a request to a court for assisted suicide, but there\u2019s a lot of encouragement for him not to go through with it (as well as others praising him for \u2018seeking his rights\u2019). It doesn\u2019t seem to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-36180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-works-of-mercy"],"yoast_head":"\n
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