" The key issue is that of who decides what is best for a terminally ill person and what role the law and the courts have in that process. "
" For centuries doctors have sworn to uphold life, and now for the first time they are being asked, openly and at times defiantly, what gives them the right to decide other people's fate? "
" Two things a person does alone, the ancient maxim held: come into the world and leave it. "