If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.

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

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Money 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.

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