NPR
by FRANK MORRIS
December 28, 2013
"If you're in life and you start to think things are a little too rough to handle," he says, "just think of me and what I go through, and you realize that hey, I don't have it so bad."
A spinal injury left Iraq War veteran Tomas Young paralyzed below the waist in 2004. Further medical complications a few years later made him quadriplegic.
Although Young had enlisted two days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he became an outspoken anti-war activist.
KCUR's Frank Morris spoke with him in April, after Young announced he would refuse medication and his feeding tube until he died.
"I decided that I was no longer going to watch myself deteriorate," Young said at the time.
"I just came to the conclusion that I wanted some more time with my wife," he tells NPR's Arun Rath.
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