Plato's Playground
Of course, the question of physician-assisted suicide has an added dimension beyond the broad question of a right to die, or, as in the Schiavo case, the right of next of kin to make decisions about life support. Some physicians are troubled by it not because they don't think their terminally ill patients have a right to choose the time and method of their own passing, but because they are worried about the affirmative participation of physicians in bringing about death and how that might force people to reinterpret the ethical basis of the professional role. I don't share their worries, but I'm not an M.D. myself and it obviously feels different to some people who are.
BTW, I made a new post but Blogger put it two posts down, apparently because I drafted it a few days before I posted it. Weird. Anyway if you want to check it out, it's there.
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