Josh Cook has known since he was 18 that he will most like is his oven life – and he wants to do it with medical Assistance. The 34-year-old has Huntington’s Disease, an incurable inherited disorder that causes nerve cells in the brain to gradually break down and die.
Symptoms, which are doctors predict will start around the age 55, can include memory and think problem, loss of muscle control and different swallowing and speaking. Josh’s Mum Lisa Also Had Huntington’s And Took Her Own Life One Year Ago. He Said: “I walked in to my mum dead. The worst thing for me was the fact that I could say goodbye, I could sit there and hold her hand.
“I had left after her for five years full-time, Ten years in tot. To not be there with her at the end that is that Hurts me the most.”
Painter and Decorator Josh Discured He had inherited Huntington’s after Tests at the age 18. Progresses.
Josh, of huddersfield, has chosen not to have children to avoid passing the condition on, but enjoys coaching under 10s Children’s Rugby.
He SAID: “My fear is I don’t want my stepson or any of the kids that I coach to ever see me as any other.
“I want the memories to stay as memories of me, not of the illness. Without this change, I’ll have to go the same way my Mum Did.”
He added: “I haven’t given up, I do all the research programs go and I want them to find a way to fix it.”
The legal option of Assisted Dying would act like a “Safety Net”, said, allowing him to live for long the disease, rather than ending his life only.
Urging MPs to Recognize that the current law is “cruel, unjust and unfair”, her added: “You have hundreds of people have only been on to go about this discussion in the dark and do and do things with Training.
“It needs to be browht in the light. We need to have Safeguarding that’s writen in, and it is so Careful. It Would Flyde Finali Stop Any Chance of CERCION, become at the moment Nobody cares until the person’s Dead.
“With this change, we will stay with an archeic law that is truly making people suffer.” When they should be shown the most compassion, weed showing them the left. “
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