“The law of assisted suicide offers the freedom of the atomized individual will in response to the vulnerability, dependence, fragility, and natural limits of embodied life as it nears its end. What it offers concretely is the freedom to choose self-annihilation as a mechanism to control the conclusion of life’s narrative. But because the law fails to grasp the diminished agency of a human being whose body is dying, the framework it offers is rife with risks of fraud, abuse, duress, neglect, and coercion, especially for those populations who are already vulnerable because of old age, disability, poverty, or membership in a stigmatized class.” – O.Carter Snead
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