by Ben Mattlin

About the author: Ben Mattlin is a writer and editor in West Los Angeles.

If I, a 33-year-old married Harvard graduate with a new baby daughter, threatened to hurl myself off a tall building, would an emergency medical team respond? And if one did, would I be offered counseling—or carbon monoxide"

Kevorkian's Methods Threaten the Disabled

Iwas born with a neuromuscular disability and use a wheelchair. With all the recent euthanasia news—Dr. Jack Kevorkian's acquittal and new trial and two federal court decisions favoring assisted suicide—I don't feel safe.

It may be constitutionally protected, but the right to die seems dangerous to those of us who are not ideal physical specimens.

Iam not terminally ill. Both the April 2 [1996] decision by the Second U.S. Circuit Court of...