http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 19:41:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/17/some-with-locked-in-syndrome-do-not-want-to-die-but-tony-nicklinson-does/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/17/some-with-locked-in-syndrome-do-not-want-to-die-but-tony-nicklinson-does/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:20:42 +0000 Dr Tom Riddington http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=27518 A man is suffering and needs help. The treatment is easily administered and has almost guaranteed success. We watch, and sympathise, and discuss at length the shame and the shock of his situation, how we couldn't imagine his pain. But we do nothing.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/08/17/some-with-locked-in-syndrome-do-not-want-to-die-but-tony-nicklinson-does/feed/ 73