The right to choose the end of one’s life: The upholding by the U.S. Supreme Court of the Oregon law permitting individuals to decide to end their lives on their own terms was wonderful. It is a horrendous idea that anyone suffering intense pain, and is mentally competent and incurable, should not be allowed by law to end his life by his own choice.

What right does anyone else –a clergyman, a legislator, and most especially George Bush and John Ashcroft–have to deny a sufferer such relief? The disgusting grandstanding by Bush and some members of Congress in the Terri Schiavo case makes the Supreme Court decision all the more welcome.

I hope that the rest of the country will soon, out of compassion for unfortunate sufferers, enact legislation similar to that of Oregon.