The pictures of how Tony Nicklinson used to be present a picture of a big, handsome family man. And then there's another one: of someone else sitting in a wheelchair, evidently incapable of doing anything. If you didn't already know it was the same person, you'd struggle to recognise the transformation.
But that's what a massive stroke does to people, and for the last seven years Tony Nicklinson has described his life as worthless.
He has a rare condition known as "locked-in syndrome", from which there will be no physical recovery. But his mind still works, and it has decided that he wants to die.