Yes I have just seen about refusing food and it is just so awful that he had to resort to that , it disgusts me :-(

I was glad to hear today that he finally got what he wanted. RIP Tony. A brave man who sadly had to fight right up until the end. x

> I know we don't all agree on this assisted suicide legislation but doesn't it feel so much better to know he died of natural causes rather than a suicide?

No, because it was still suicide - he refused food.  I just wish he hadn't had to be driven to it, I can't imagine how unbearably horrible a way to die that is :-(

RIP Tony, free from your torment at last.

If he had pneumonia then he wouldn't have felt like food with all that gunge rattling about on his chest.

RIP Tony and condolences to his family

> doesn't it feel so much better to know he died of natural causes rather than a suicide?

mm no, he had not eaten for a week, so he had to starve himself to death, or to weaken enough for secondary causes (Pneumonia) to finish him.

Interesting interview with Terry Prachett who said that we give more dignity to our cats and dogs to assist them to sleep rather than as he said Tony had to murder himself to get the end outcome he so desperately wanted.

I'm just watching the news and seeing him crying having the endure what he did angers me so. I agree with you Lucy, shame on the courts for making him resort to dying in such a way; not when he chose... At least he is at peace now and free from pain, mentally and physically and his family don't have to see him suffer any more..

> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">we give more dignity to our cats and dogs to assist them to sleep

i've often thought this. Comes to something when you wont leave your beloved pet to suffer but have to watch a loved parent/grandparent/sibling die without dignity and in pain. Tragic

> omes to something when you wont leave your beloved pet to suffer

Not only would we not leave a pet to suffer like that we could be prosecuted for causing unnecessary suffering.

Glad he is at peace now. God bless him and his family and friends.

> doesn't it feel so much better to know he died of natural causes rather than a suicide?<br /

>mm no, he had not eaten for a week, so he had to starve himself to death, or to weaken enough for secondary causes (Pneumonia) to finish him.

This is exactly what I feel.  He stopped eating after he heard the ruling.  He never expected to be refused.  He believed that a doctor would be given permission to help.  I believe that not eating would have been a definite contribution to the pneumonia.

Poor guy, having to use his last resort.  R.I.P.

> I believe that not eating would have been a definite contribution to the pneumonia.
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I have watched the footage of him on 16th August and although he was very upset (obviously) you could see he was struggling to breathe and looked quite poorly as well. He may well have already developed pneumonia before refusing food. Either way the poor man is now at peace.

R.I.P  Tony.