Liz Carr writes a letter in the BBC News magazine to Noel Martian, a man paralysed from the neck down after an attack by neo-Nazis in Germany, 1996.
Here, disabled broadcaster Liz Carr, who met Noel for a BBC Radio 5 Live report, writes an open letter urging him to think again.
Liz Carr explores the reasons why disabled people are increasingly considering assisted suicide, and the role the media has to play in it.