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A PARALYSED man is taking up a legal challenge for the right to die with the help of a doctor, saying he is in horrendous pain and would like to be able to choose when to "call it a day".
dailyexpress.co.uk (1 month and 5 days ago)

Saudi Arabia is facing appeals to over-rule a court that ordered a man paralysed as retribution for a stabiing that left a man unable to walk a decade ago.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 20 days ago)

The Foreign Office has reacted with "deep concern" to reports that a Saudi Arabian man has been sentenced to be paralysed, describing the punishment as "grotesque".
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 19 days ago)
A paralysed man is taking up a legal challenge for the right to die with the help of a doctor, saying...
thetimes.co.uk (1 month and 5 days ago)

Saudi Arabia has denied reports that a court in the kingdom has ordered a punishment of paralysis for a man who committed a crime that paralysed another man.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 14 days ago)

A paralysed man is taking up a legal challenge for the right to die with the help of a doctor, saying he would like to be able to choose when to “call it a day”.
independent.co.uk (1 month and 5 days ago)

Brain implant could allow people to 'feel' the presence of infrared light and one day be used to move artificial limbsScientists have moved closer to allowing paralysed people to control artificial limbs with their thoughts following a breakthrough in technology that gave rats an extra sense.A brain implant that allows the animals to "feel" the presence of invisible infrared...
guardian.co.uk (3 months and 6 days ago)

A man almost entirely paralysed in a road accident 23 years ago has won a legal fight to join the right-to-die campaign started by Tony Nicklinson, the locked-in syndrome sufferer who died last year.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 13 days ago)

Nicola Muir, 23, from Portsmouth, developed Guillain-Barre Syndrome as a student. She had to learn to walk again and needed a wheelchair for 18 months.
dailymail.co.uk (28 days ago)

A Saudi Arabian court has ruled that a man should be paralysed as punishment for a crime which resulted in the victim being confined to a wheelchair.
independent.co.uk (1 month and 19 days ago)
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