Deans' stroke musings: UK court rules against paralysed man in ‘right to die’ case

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

UK court rules against paralysed man in ‘right to die’ case

The dark side of locked-in syndrome. FYI only, I'm not going to further comment on this.
http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/world-news/46119-uk-court-rules-against-paralysed-man-in-right-to-die-case
A British man left paralysed from the neck down by a catastrophic stroke seven years ago lost his High Court battle on Thursday to gain a legal right to end his life when he chooses.
Tony Nicklinson's condition means it is impossible for him to take his own life and he wants the legal right to have a doctor take his life without fear of prosecution.
Since he suffered the stroke in 2005, the former rugby player, now 58, has had to endure what is known as locked-in syndrome.
"This means that most of my body is paralysed but my mind is as it was before the stroke.
"All I can move is my head, and the stroke took away my power of speech.
"Now I talk to people with a perspex spelling board or a computer operated by my eye blinks," he told CNN in an interview in June.
But while expressing sympathy for his situation, the High Court ruled Thursday that such a significant change to the law involving
overturning the ban on voluntary euthanasia would have to be decided by lawmakers.