"Freedom to take one's life as a private
matter is very different from a legalized
'right to die', which all too easily can
lead to a presumed duty to die. All those
who work in palliative medicine know well
how most requests for a speedy end to life
fade away once good care has been
instituted. To suggest killing before we
have done all we can in caring would, to me,
be the wrong answer to the present
question."
