suicide
Jun 30 2009, Marie Hazledine-Barber

For years Shayne Sime aged 42 after a severe head and spinal injury, struggled in life as a paralysis gradually crept through his body, rendering him wheel chair bound. An injury in the medical world in New Zealand called the silent injury.
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Kurt Perry, center, a 26 year-old disabled man, poses with Jerry Dincin and Rosalie Guttman of the assisted suicide group Final Exit Network in the community center of his condo complex Tuesday, March 17, 2009, in Chicago’s western suburbs. Perry had...