On the general matter of assisted suicide:<\/p>\n
(1) I couldn’t care less what people with ideological or theological fixations think.\u00a0 They are entitled to their intellectual pleasures, but they have no right to foist their conclusions on citizens of a free society.<\/p>\n
(2) The only jurisprudential objection to assisted suicide is that if it is permitted, then it will be easier for ingenious people to commit homicide.<\/p>\n
This seems to me to be true. However, I can’t believe it is beyound the wit of our jurists to devise laws that (a) accommodate the sincere, reasonable, non-transient wish to die of \u00a0a Daniel James<\/a> while thwarting the fellow who wants to bump off Granny for his inheritance.<\/p>\n If that is<\/em> beyond the wit of our jurists, we are paying them too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the general matter of assisted suicide: (1) I couldn’t care less what people with ideological or theological fixations think.\u00a0 They are entitled to their intellectual pleasures, but they have no right to foist their conclusions on citizens of a … Continue reading