1. Andrew Bernstein argues that since individuals have a right to control their own bodies, they have a right to suicide. Peter J. Bernardi argues that an individual has obligations to society that sometimes outweigh individual rights. Do you feel that individuals have a right to commit suicide if they choose? Why or why not? Now consider physician-assisted suicide: Do you believe individuals have a right to a physician’s assistance in committing suicide? In what ways are the two proposed rights different?
2. Joram Graf Haber proposes that physician-assisted suicide be tolerated by society as a “poorly kept secret,” in much the same way that driving a little above the speed limit is technically illegal but often ignored. Given the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s claim that assisted suicide and euthanasia are abused in the Netherlands, what objections would the AFSP have...