The debate about the rights and wrongs of assisted death is never far from the headlines, and so far 2012 has been no exception. In January the current legal status of assisted death in the UK was criticised for being "inadequate and incoherent" by the Commission on Assisted Dying: a report commissioned by the thinktank Demos. Many of those criticisms will now be aired in court in the coming months, after Tony Nicklinson, who was left paralysed from the neck down after a stroke, won the right to argue his case in the High Court of England and Wales that he should have the option of requesting euthanasia: that a physician be able to end his life without fear of prosecution.
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