That freedom, the judges concluded, also applies to the end of life. On April 2, the federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit made a similar ruling in New York. It is already legal, the judges reasoned, for terminally ill patients to hasten their deaths by refusing treatment. Physicians may lawfully withdraw life-support systems. Therefore, doctors should not be prosecuted for actively administering lethal drugs to patients who ask for help in dying.
Owners can dispose of what they own as they see fit.
But no matter what they call it, taking a human life is still murder. In the forefront of the euthanasia movement is Dr. Jack Kevorkian. He calls his practice medicide, and himself an obitiarist. In 1995, he opened his first suicide center north of Detroit. The death lobby is also redefining what it means to be a person.