Once more, this issue is
not about your right to kill yourself but about the right of
others to kill you. The laws in most countries call that murder and have done for several hundreds of years. People who would like to end their lives because they are intolerably sick or disabled and physically incapable of doing so want laws changed in their own countries so that 'assisted suicide' is legal.
The issue is the murder laws, not the suicide laws.
The High Court in London has refused Mr. Nicklinson's doctors permission to end his life at his request. The case will now be subject to an appeal to the Appeal Court, I expect.
The next step would be the European Court of Human Rights, I think. This is an important test case that will go the full distance.
I can understand the legal principle that's being upheld and the implications of changing it. However, at the individual level, this man and many others are suffering miserable lives. If those who oppose him were given a similar experience, they may change their minds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19249680