Abstract
Tens perhaps hundreds of thousands of trees could have been spared over the last forty-five years had opponents of physicianassisted death only been content to let Yale Kamisar be their exclusive spokesperson. Their movement would have lost no significant substance or persuasive force, for Kamisar's 1958 article Some NonReligious Views Against Proposed 'Mercy-Killing' Legislation'presaged the shape and content of the subsequent forty-five year debate over legalizing physician-assisted death (PAD).2 Kamisar's article preceded by years the development of a whole jurisprudence relating to the withholding/withdrawing of life-sustaining medical treatment (LSMT) and the administration of pain-relief substances alleviating physical suffering while risking accelerated death.3 That article demonstrated remarkable prescience and intellectual honesty while shaping the content of opposition to PAD. Kamisar continued to participate in the debate for decades thereafter,4 always exhibiting remarkable intellectual honesty and
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