[Right_to_die] U K euthanasia campaigner goes on hunger strike

[World right-to-die news (nonprofit)]

The Hucknall Dispatch in England reported 9 May 08:-

Euthanasia campaigner in UK starts hunger strike

CAMPAIGNING former Hucknall man Bill Starr begins a hunger strike next 
Tuesday – and he says he is determined to keep it up "for as long as it 
takes".

Bill's wife, Maureen, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease and was a 
resident of Lowmoor Nursing Home at Kirkby-in-Ashfield, died last 
December at the age of 64.

Now Bill (77) is protesting against the "so-called care system of 
Britain" at homes for the elderly mentally ill.

He claims that Maureen was trapped in a "living hell" and he adds: "I 
hope her suffering will not be in vain because the general public 
chooses to remain mute."

Bill, formerly of Curtis Street in Hucknall and an ex-Newstead Colliery 
miner, says: "I have nothing left in my life without Maureen and I am 
not scared of dying."

In January last year, the Dispatch exclusively reported that Bill went 
to Lowmoor with the aim of killing Maureen.

He then found himself banned by Notts County Council and Nottingham City 
Council from seeing his wife without supervision.

He has since launched a campaign for legalised voluntary euthanasia, 
even writing to the Queen.