What does dying feel like?

Eighteen months ago Tony Judt was, by his own description, "a 61-year-old, very healthy, very fit, very independent, travelling sports-playing guy". He had a slight shortness of breath walking up hills and found himself hitting the wrong keys when he typed, nothing more.

Then in September 2008 he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, a progressive degenerative illness that causes the cells which control movement to die.

Read the full and excellent article in the Guardian here.

Thanks to Carla.