[shhrubbery!]

The time has come for the best legal minds in the country to draft model legislation that will tighten existing laws so as to give every reasonable legal benefit of the doubt to life rather than, as too often happens now, to slow death by dehydration.

Absolutely. But I fear such legislation will be sabotaged by the "right-to-die"-ers.

OTOH, there may be some good signs the public is rejecting the "right to die" movement. Didn't the people of Washington State vote down a "doctor assisted suicide" referendum?

[syriacus]

OTOH, there may be some good signs the public is rejecting the "right to die" movement

And, well they should.

If Mike succeeds in having Terri starved to death, you can bet there will be an increase in solitary suicides, especially of

• teenagers who figure their lives are not worthwhile unless they are "perfect," and
• the chronically ill and the elderly who do not "want to be a burden" on their families.

Mike and Felos have made it clear that "burdensome," "imperfect" humans should (be "allowed to") die.