Physician Assisted Suicide: its Challenge to the Prevailing Constitutional Paradigm

In this article I argue first that dying, as a social construct, has undergone a significant restructuring during the course of the present century. I then argue that dying occupies a precarious place in the current substantive due to process jurisprudence of the US Supreme Court. Finally I argue that dying & the diminishment that is ordinarily incident to it ought to be of special interest to Christian communities just insofar as that diminishment has the potential to reveal certain basic truths about the human condition.