Iraq War veteran Tomas Young decides to live for loving wife

Injured Veteran Keeps Up His Fight, Deciding To Live
NPR
by FRANK MORRIS
December 28, 2013

"If you're in life and you start to think things are a little too rough to handle," he says, "just think of me and what I go through, and you realize that hey, I don't have it so bad."

A spinal injury left Iraq War veteran Tomas Young paralyzed below the waist in 2004. Further medical complications a few years later made him quadriplegic.

Although Young had enlisted two days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he became an outspoken anti-war activist.

KCUR's Frank Morris spoke with him in April, after Young announced he would refuse medication and his feeding tube until he died.

"I decided that I was no longer going to watch myself deteriorate," Young said at the time.

"I just came to the conclusion that I wanted some more time with my wife," he tells NPR's Arun Rath.
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