PERTH - Perth quadriplegic Christian Rossiter has died of an infection, five weeks after a court granted him the right to refuse food and water.
Seven Network says Rossiter (49), died in a Perth nursing home late on Sunday night (local time). It said Rossiter had refused medical treatment fora chest infection.
In August, West Australian Supreme Court Chief Justice Wayne Martin handed down a landmark ruling that effectively gave Rossiter an avenue to die by starving to death.
A series of injuries combined to make Rossiter a spastic quadriplegic last year, and he described his life as a living hell.
Rossiter had asked the Brightwater Care Group at least 40 times to stop feeding and hydrating him through a tube to his stomach, before the matter was taken to court.
