Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research - or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.

I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.