Video: Tony Nicklinson: court case determines the sort of death that awaits me Three judges in London will hear an action brought by Tony Nicklinson, 57, from Melksham, Wiltshire, who suffered a catastrophic stroke in 2005 while on a business trip to Athens, which left him paralysed below the neck and unable to speak. Mr Nicklinson, who communicates by blinking or limited head movement, sums up his existence as "dull, miserable, demeaning, undignified and intolerable" and wants a doctor to be able to lawfully end his life. Ahead of the court hearing, Tony Nicklinson used a specially-adapted computer to enable him to express his view on being helped to die. It is important for me because it determines what sort of death that awaits me. If I win it means that I have a pain free death. If I lose I am faced with the choices of living until I die of natural causes or starving myself to death...neither option is particularly inviting. I want the law to recognise that there are some circumstances where suicide is a legitimate choice for a person to make. Tony Nicklinson's wife, Jane, explains why she is fighting for her husband Tony's right to die