Man with advanced MND loses challenge for an assisted death

A retired lecturer with advanced motor neurone disease has lost his challenge to the legal ban on assisting a suicide in England and Wales.1

Noel Conway, 67, argued that the law condemned him to “unimaginable suffering.” He added, “If I let nature take its course, I could effectively become entombed in my own body, or I could die from suffocation or choking.”

Conway, who wants a doctor to be allowed to help him die by suicide, asked three senior judges at the High Court in London for a declaration that the ban …