Tomas Young, Dying Iraq Veteran, Chooses To Live: I’ll ‘Hold On As Long As I Can’
Posted in: Today's ChiliTomas Young, a paralyzed Iraq veteran who had planned to end his life after years of fighting pain and complications from war wounds, has decided it’s not yet time to go.
“I decided I was going to hold on as long as I can until it becomes too unbearable for me,” Young told the Kansas City Star in an interview earlier this month, saying that he would no longer ascribe a date to any decision about his life.
In February, Young revealed news of his choice to an audience attending a screening of the documentary “Body of War,” a film about his recovery from being shot through the spine days into his first tour of duty. Later that year, Young began rejecting the nourishment that kept him living after numerous painful surgeries and treatments, he told stunned attendees in a Skype appearance with his wife, Claudia Cuellar. The decision would kill him.
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