Hong Kong euthanasia plea man goes home

BBC News - Hong Kong euthanasia plea man goes home: Tang Siu-pun was rehearsing for a gymnastics display in 1991 when he fell, badly injuring his spine; he became paralysed from the neck down. In 2004, he used a chopstick in his mouth to type his appeal to Hong Kong's chief executive and legislators, letter by letter, asking for help to let him die. Assisted suicide is illegal in Hong Kong, but his appeal prompted widespread media coverage and debate.

Donations poured in to pay taxi fares for his father to visit him every day in hospital to feed him his favourite soup. Other wheelchair-bound quadriplegic people appealed to him to value life so that he could educate others. Tang Siu-pun later changed his mind and said he wanted to live, but he still believes that the choice to live or die is a basic human right.