First Things RSS Feed - Yale Kamisar https://www.firstthings.com/author/yale-kamisar en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:55:34 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/yale-kamisar 60 “Right to Die”—Good Slogan, Fuzzy Thinking https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/12/002-right-to-die-good-slogan-fuzzy-thinking https://www.firstthings.com/article/1993/12/002-right-to-die-good-slogan-fuzzy-thinking Wed, 01 Dec 1993 00:00:00 -0500 In recent years we have heard a good deal about the “right to die.” As my colleague Carl Schneider has observed, Americans tend to think about every social problem in terms of “rights,” a mode of thinking we find convenient and comfortable. And few rallying cries or slogans have been more appealing and seductive than that of the “right to die.” Few are also more fuzzy, more misleading, and more misunderstood. The term has been used loosely by many people to embrace at least four different rights:

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