Right to die

The idea that the right to life is a right to life of a certain minimum quality implies that mere existence is not an automatic good. Since illness, permanent injury, and dying are states of living, an individual's rights are fully engaged in them. [...]there is no difference between them; for withholding treatment is an act, based on a decision, just as giving treatment is an act, based on a decision. [...]someone who starved another person to death would be as liable for murder as if he or she had poisoned the person.