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Meet a Paralyzed Man Who Tweets With His Eyes

This is Tony Nicklinson. For the past seven years he’s lived in a state of complete paralysis after suffering a stroke. Nicklinson is in the midst of a court battle for the right to end his own life — he’s called his post-accident existence “dull, miserable, demeaning, undignified and intolerable” — but on June 13, the Brit did something uniquely remarkable: he made his debut on Twitter using only his eyes.

Read more. [Images: YouTube, @TonyNicklinson]

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