“The naïveté of those who favor a limited euthanasia regime (starting with assistance in suicide as its softest case) should not survive a serious visit to Holland, where the legal requirement of a patient’s informed consent has all too often been disregarded.

…What we do know is that the best defense against the pro-death advocates is good medical care, with hospice and palliative options the context for excellence as lives get harder and finally draw to a conclusion. As we work and pray for true dignity in dying–for dying to be kept quite separate from killing–we should take heart that a Michigan jury decided that Kevorkian’s action was a homicide. And we should redouble our efforts to argue our case and make this verdict the turning-point which it might yet prove to be.”