Thanks, I'm at a borrowed computer and won't be able to give this attention until I get home. Off the top, though, one quick comment: wherever we have some approximation of a free market, history has proven Malthus wrong. Later...
The whole right-to-die movement is reactionary to the bone. They are hooked on 19th C. socialist doctrines that create a strong economic incentive to killing the weak, the ill, the elderly. But even as socialists fix their gaze at the past, medicine is making logarithmic advances in so many areas, there is ever more hope for these patients. Thus the Left is stealing the lives of the afflicted just as hopes of cures for them burn brightest. Worse, this denial of human sympathy for the weakest among us is our doom as a civilization.
>>The murder of Terri Schiavio will not soon be forgotten, and now in retrospect, it might be viewed in the future as one the seminal events in our history that hallmarked the quickening of the massacre of our undesirables.
You're absolutely on target. This was a landmark case both in medicine and in constitutional law. Time will show that we went over a cliff. No, we were pushed over a cliff.
Thanks for your link!
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That is an excellent essay. It's been quite a while since I read it. Thanks for posting the link for us again.