Sebire's goal remains fixed: circumvent the 2005 law passed following a controversial mercy killing by a mother and doctor of a tetrapalegic, blind, and virtually shut-in patient .
France's standing law was written in 2005, after a mother and doctor provoked the death of a young man who no longer wanted to live in his paralyzed, virtually shut-in condition.
Since the 1985 auto accident that left Wu Shu-chen confined to a wheelchair, however, Taiwan's First Lady has refused to become a shut-in.
DARRELL NORMAN: Records show anniversary of a confinement Columns I wrote and daybook entries I made 10 years ago this month remind me I was then what the AM radio preachers of my youth called a shut-in.
June 28, 2013 - The Gadsden Times