A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.
Jacob M. AppelIf freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.
Jacob M. AppelMoney spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.
Jacob M. Appel