by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Writer The 49 year-old Australian quadriplegic who won the right to have his feeding tube removed just five weeks ago, died in a nursing home in Perth of a chest infection on Sunday night. Christian Rossiter, who died sometime during the night of Sept. 20, had a chest infection for which he had been refusing treatment. In August, Justice Wayne Martin ruled that Rossiter’s caregivers had a legal obligation to comply with his request to stop feeding him. Rossiter had been an avid cyclist and rock climber before being struck by a car which left him seriously injured. He later developed painful spastic quadriplegia as a result of the injuries. Describing his life as a “living hell,” he asked his caregivers more than 40 times to stop feeding and hydrating him through a tube in his stomach. Justice Martin finally granted his wish, even though Rossiter always claimed his fight was not about euthanasia, but about giving people the right to refuse treatment if they are dying. John Hammond, Rossiter’s lawyer, said his client had been in considerable pain. “Death, I suspect comes as quite a relief for Christian,” he told the Australian press. © All Rights Reserved, Living His Life Abundantly®/Women of Grace®  http://www.womenofgrace.com For more about Christian Rossiter, visit /blog/?p=2686