Dying man in legal battle for ‘dignified’ end to his life

A TERMINALLY ill man is set to continue his legal fight over his wish for a “peaceful and dignified” death.

Noel Conway, a 68-year-old retired lecturer from Shrewsbury, says he feels “entombed” by his motor neurone disease.

When he has less than six months left to live and still has mental capacity to make the decision, he wants to be able to enlist help from medical professionals to bring about his death.

He previously asked for a declaration that the Suicide Act 1961 is incompatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which relates to respect for private and family life, and Article 14, which protects from discrimination.

But his case was rejected by High Court judges in October last year.

His lawyers will go to the Appeal Court on January 18.