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The Supreme Court is presently considering whether states may make it a crime for doctors to assist in a patient's suicide. The issue is whether such laws violate the Constitutional rights of people. In deciding these appeals, the Supreme Court must first resolve ....

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.... The Supreme Court's conservative bloc would never explicitly adopt such reasoning, because the First Amendment forbids the establishment of religion. The Declaration of Independence proclaimed, for the first time in the history of nations, that each person exists as an end in himself. This basic truth which finds political expression in the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means in practical terms that you need no one's permission to live and that no one may forcibly obstruct your efforts to achieve your own personal happiness. But what if happiness becomes impossible to attain? What if a terrable disease, or some other desast ....